Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepflmacher - Hardcover

Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814213111 ISBN 13: 9780814213117

Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepflmacher, edited by LindaM. Shires, offers a compelling new perspective on the long and influential publishing career and thought of Knoepflmacher, a leading critic of the novel and Victorian poetry. This volume draws together essays on nineteenth-century literature written between 1963 and 2012.An introductory essay and new scaffolding emphasize the interrelations among the essays, which together form a consistent approach to literary criticism.

Knoepflmacher’s vision of texts and readersstressesthe emotional knowledge afforded by reading, writing about, and teaching literary texts.Each chapter links Romantic texts to those of later writers. Shelley and Keats try to revise Wordsworth, but they are themselves recast by Browning and Hardy. Similarly, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf’s reliance on Romantic tropes are fruitfully examined. Above all, however, these chapters stress the impact of Wordsworth on his many contemporaries and successors. Knoepflmacher probes into their texts to find, as Wordsworth did, a momentaryfusionof opposites.He posits a reader who is flexible—able to move in multiple directions by paying attention to spatial, verbal, and imagistic coordinates, across and down a page.Given the attention paid tothe translation of affect into thought,this collectionwillcontribute to Victorian studiesas well as enhance our understanding of the affective dynamics of nineteenth-century literature.

About this title

About the Author

U. C. Knoepflmacher is Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature Emeritus in the Department of English at Princeton University. LindaM.Shires is David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University, New York.

Review

“As a capacious and unified work of a major nineteenth-century scholar, Victorians Reading the Romantics will be of interest to all advanced workers in the field of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature. It is a work that every nineteenth-century scholar should own, every university library should buy, and many serious undergraduates should read. Knoepflmacher is a beautiful writer—lucid, graceful, funny where funny is appropriate, moving where moving is right.” —Judith Plotz, George Washington University
 

 

“Bringing these essays together transforms them into a cohesive book of readings on a theme, allowing them to do the work of showing how a very fine reader can bring to present, active meaningfulness a historical issue. They collectively cover a great number of important Romantic and Victorian writers.” —John Maynard, co-editor of Victorian Literature and Culture

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0814213111
• ISBN 13: 9780814213117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Shires Linda M.