The Historicity of Romantic Discourse

by Clifford Siskin

This provocative critique of Romantic discourse will profoundly affect how readers perceive not only the writers of the Romantic period, but also their most celebrated modern critics--such as de Man, Hartman, and McGann--who, as Professor Siskin points out, are themselves unwitting captives of the ideas and writing they criticize. With the Romantic redefinition of the self as a mind that grows, writing became an expressive index to that growth--the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195044703
• ISBN13: 9780195044706
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"