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The Poetics of Sensibility

A Revolution in Literary Style

By: Jerome J. McGann

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The Poetics of Sensibility

A Revolution in Literary Style

By: Jerome J. McGann

The Poetics of Sensibility takes as its prime aim the neglected poetry, principally by women, which qualifies as either poetry of sensibility or poetry of sentiment.

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Oxford University Press

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0198184786

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9780198184782

The Scholar's Art

Literary Studies in a Managed World

By: Jerome McGann

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The Scholar's Art

Literary Studies in a Managed World

By: Jerome McGann

For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In The Scholar’s Art, a collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports. Of particular interest to McGann is the demise of public discourse about poetry. That poetry has become recondite is, to his mind, at once a problem for how scholars do their work and a general cultural emergency. The Scholar’s Art asks what could be gained by reimagining the way scholars have codified the literary and cultural history of the past two hundred years and goes on to provide a series of case studies that illustrate how scholarly method can help bring about such reimaginings. McGann closes with a discussion of technology’s ability to harness the reimagination of cultural memory and concludes with exemplary acts of critical reflection. Astute observation from one of America’s most bracing and original commentators on the place of literature in twenty-first century culture, The Scholar’s Art proposes new ways—cultural, philological, and technological—to reimagine our literary past and future.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226500853

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9780226500850

A New Republic of Letters

Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction

By: Jerome McGann

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A New Republic of Letters

Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction

By: Jerome McGann

A manifesto for the humanities in the digital age, A New Republic of Letters argues that the history of texts, together with the methods by which they are preserved and made available for interpretation, are the overriding subjects of humanist study in the twenty-first century. Theory and philosophy, which have grounded the humanities for decades, no longer suffice as an intellectual framework. Jerome McGann proposes we look instead to philology—a discipline which has been out of fashion for many decades but which models the concerns of digital humanities with surprising fidelity. For centuries, books have been the best way to preserve and transmit knowledge. But as libraries and museums digitize their archives and readers abandon paperbacks for tablet computers, digital media are replacing books as the repository of cultural memory. While both the mission of the humanities and its traditional modes of scholarship and critical study are the same, the digital environment is driving disciplines to work with new tools that require major, and often very difficult, institutional changes. Now more than ever, scholars need to recover the theory and method of philological investigation if the humanities are to meet their perennial commitments. Textual and editorial scholarship, often marginalized as a narrowly technical domain, should be made a priority of humanists’ attention.

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Harvard University Press

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0674369254

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9780674369252

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Major Poems and Selected Prose

By: Algernon Charles Swinburne,John Stewart Bryan University Professor Jerome McGann

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Major Poems and Selected Prose

By: Algernon Charles Swinburne,John Stewart Bryan University Professor Jerome McGann

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) is, with Browning and Tennyson, one of the touchstone Victorian poets. He was a major critic and an important fiction writer as well. Emerging out of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, his bold and innovative work made him both a celebrated and controversial writer at home and a figure of international importance. Hugo, Baudelaire, and Mallarm� were among his great admirers. Jerome McGann and Charles L. Sligh now present a generous sampling of Swinburne’s poetry and prose. This wide-ranging collection satisfies a long need for a comprehensive selection of Swinburne’s work. It is accompanied by learned and critically incisive commentaries and notes.

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532

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Yale University Press

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0300104995

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9780300104998

The Point Is To Change It

Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

By: Jerome McGann

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The Point Is To Change It

Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

By: Jerome McGann

In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other.

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266

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University of Alabama Press

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0817354085

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9780817354084

Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

By: Jerome McGann

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Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

By: Jerome McGann

Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) has long occupied the position of literary outsider. Dismissed as unrepresentative of the main currents of antebellum culture, Poe commented incisively -- in fiction and nonfiction -- on nationalism, science, materialism, popular taste, and cultural ideology. Opposing the pressure to write nationalistic "American" tales or from a restricted New England perspective, he produced a body of work held in greater international esteem than that of any of his U.S. contemporaries. In Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture, scholars explore Poe's anti-nationalistic Americanism as they redefine the outlines of antebellum print culture and challenge ideas that situate Poe at the margins of national thought and cultural activity. The contributors offer fresh perspectives on an often-maligned author, including essays on Poe's preoccupation with celebrity, his fascination with metropolitan crime and mystery, his impact as an observer of racial fear, his role as an eccentric cultural icon, and his fluctuating reputation in our own era. They also argue for new digital approaches that facilitate remapping of print culture. Contributors: Anna Brickhouse, Betsy Erkkila, Jennifer Rae Greeson, Leon Jackson, J. Gerald Kennedy, Maurice S. Lee, Jerome McGann, Scott Peeples, Leland S. Person, and Eliza Richards

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359

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LSU Press

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0807150282

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9780807150283

The Textual Condition

By: Jerome J. McGann

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The Textual Condition

By: Jerome J. McGann

Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Arguing that textuality is a matter of inscription and articulation, he explores texts as material and social phenomena, as particular kinds of acts. McGann links his study to contextual and institutional studies of literary works as they are generated over time by authors, editors, typographers, book designers, marketing planners, and other publishing agents. This enables him to examine issues of textual stability and instability in the arenas of textual production and reproduction. Drawing on literary examples from the past two centuries--including works by Byron, Blake, Morris, Yeats, Joyce, and especially Pound--McGann applies his theory to key problems facing anyone who studies texts and textuality.

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Princeton University Press

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0691217750

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9780691217758

Culture & Language at Crossed Purposes

The Unsettled Records of American Settlement

By: Jerome McGann

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Culture & Language at Crossed Purposes

The Unsettled Records of American Settlement

By: Jerome McGann

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties—“a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records.” A noted scholar of the “textual conditions” of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works—the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann’s book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory—the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226818470

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9780226818474

The Poet Edgar Allan Poe

Alien Angel

By: Jerome McGann

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The Poet Edgar Allan Poe

Alien Angel

By: Jerome McGann

The poetry of Edgar Allan Poe has had a rough ride in America, as Emerson’s sneering quip about “The Jingle Man” testifies. That these poems have never lacked a popular audience has been a persistent annoyance in academic and literary circles; that they attracted the admiration of innovative poetic masters in Europe and especially France—notably Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Valéry—has been further cause for embarrassment. Jerome McGann offers a bold reassessment of Poe’s achievement, arguing that he belongs with Whitman and Dickinson as a foundational American poet and cultural presence. Not all American commentators have agreed with Emerson’s dim view of Poe’s verse. For McGann, a notable exception is William Carlos Williams, who said that the American poetic imagination made its first appearance in Poe’s work. The Poet Edgar Allan Poe explains what Williams and European admirers saw in Poe, how they understood his poetics, and why his poetry had such a decisive influence on Modern and Post-Modern art and writing. McGann contends that Poe was the first poet to demonstrate how the creative imagination could escape its inheritance of Romantic attitudes and conventions, and why an escape was desirable. The ethical and political significance of Poe’s work follows from what the poet takes as his great subject: the reader. The Poet Edgar Allan Poe takes its own readers on a spirited tour through a wide range of Poe’s verse as well as the critical and theoretical writings in which he laid out his arresting ideas about poetry and poetics.

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Harvard University Press

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067474523X

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9780674745230

Byron and the Poetics of Adversity

By: Jerome McGann

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Byron and the Poetics of Adversity

By: Jerome McGann

A landmark study that unearths Byron's profound, enduring critique of the failures of language and the contradictions of his age.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009232959

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Book's by Jerome McGann Library (University of Virginia)

The Poetics of Sensibility

The Poetics of Sensibility

The Scholar's Art

The Scholar's Art

A New Republic of Letters

A New Republic of Letters

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Point Is To Change It

The Point Is To Change It

Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture

The Textual Condition

The Textual Condition

Culture & Language at Crossed Purposes

Culture & Language at Crossed Purposes

The Poet Edgar Allan Poe

The Poet Edgar Allan Poe

Byron and the Poetics of Adversity

Byron and the Poetics of Adversity

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