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The scholar's art : literary studies in a managed world

Title

The scholar's art : literary studies in a managed world / Jerome McGann.

Author

McGann, Jerome J.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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xii, 239 p.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-227) and index.

Contents

High instincts and real presences : two romantic responses to the death of beauty -- Romanticism, post-romanticism, and the afterlife of cultural authority -- The life of the dead : Laura Riding and the history of twentieth-century writing -- My kinsman Walter Scott -- Tennyson and the artists of the beautiful -- Beauty, a (nineteenth-century) user's manual -- Mr. James and his discovery interpretation in a new key -- Interpretation as a game that must be lost -- Visible language, interface, Ivanhoe -- Impossible fiction ; or, the importance of being John Cowper Powys -- Beauty, the irreal, and the willing assumption of disbelief.

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