The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation

by Jerome J. McGann

Book Overview

Claiming that the scholarship and criticism of Romanticism and its works have for too long been dominated by a Romantic ideology--by an uncritical absorption in Romanticism's own self-representations--Jerome J. McGann presents a new, critical view of the subject that calls for a radically revisionary reading of Romanticism.

In the course of his study, McGann analyzes both the predominant theories of Romanticism (those deriving from Coleridge,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226558509
• ISBN13: 9780226558509
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"