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020			_a9780198182870
020			_a0198182872
040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a840.9145 _bMCF _223
100	1		_aMcFarland, Thomas _eauthor
245	1	0	_aRomanticism and the heritage of Rousseau / _cThomas McFarland
264		1	_aOxford : _bClarendon Press, _c1995
300			_a331 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aRomanticism 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
650		0	_aRousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Influence.
650		0	_aLiterature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
650		0	_aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
650		0	_aRomanticism.
650		0	_aHistory and criticism
650		0	_aInfluence
650		0	_aLiterature, Modern
650		0	_aModern Literature
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