New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life

by Christopher Rovee

New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today's impassioned debates about method back to the discipline's early professional era, when an unprecedented makeover of American higher education with far-reaching social consequences resulted in what we might call our first crisis of academic life. Rovee probes literary study's nostalgic attachments to this past, by recasting an essential episode...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531505120
• ISBN13: 9781531505127
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"