01885nam a2200325 i 4500 189749 InACL 20260926144604.0 260926s1995 xxk 0 eng d 9780198182870 0198182872 InACL eng rda InACL 840.9145 MCF 23 McFarland, Thomas author Romanticism and the heritage of Rousseau / Thomas McFarland Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1995 331 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Romanticism and the Heritage of Rousseau presents a timely and thorough-going critique of recent thinking on Romanticism.Beginning from the conviction that Rousseau may well have been the most important cultural figure of the last quarter millennium, Thomas McFarland confronts the misplaced emphases and serious misreadings of recent new historicist, post-structuralist, and feminist Romantic criticism.Using Rousseau as a guide and influence, McFarland tackles head-on the work of six important scholars - including Jerome McGann, Marilyn Butler, and Paul de Man - and argues that the 'new orthodoxy' is signally unable to perform the ultimate task of criticism: to discern quality. In its place, McFarland advocates an attention to the 'texture' of the cultural fabric of Romanticism, in order to restore our sense of what Romanticism is, and to allow us to hear again the plangency of its dis Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Influence. Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Romanticism. History and criticism Influence Literature, Modern Modern Literature 632700 632700 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL GEN 2026-09-26 0 840.9145 MCF 189749 2026-09-26 14:46:04 2026-09-26 BK