This special issue explores the notion that many of the forms, ideas, and practices inaugurated or exemplified in the Romantic period continue to shape and drive our contemporary discourses. Literary critics, cultural and political theorists, and...
Romanticism & Contemporary Culture
Table of Contents
- About this Volume
- "Introduction"
- Laura Mandell, Miami University of Ohio
- Essay
- "Cultural Patchwork in the Classroom: Shelley Jackson, Tom Stoppard, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling Rewrite the Romantics"
- Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University
- Abstract | Essay
- "Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture"
- Atara Stein, California State University, Fullerton
- Abstract | Essay
- "How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds)"
- Ted Underwood, Colby College
- Abstract | Essay
- "The Picturesque and the Kodak Moment"
- Ron Broglio, Georgia Tech
- Abstract | Essay
A Forum: Presentism vs. Archivalism in Research & in the Classroom
- "Introduction"
- Laura Mandell, Miami University of Ohio
- Essay
- "Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History"
- David Simpson, University of California, Davis
- Abstract | Essay
- "Preface to Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies After the World Wide Web"
- Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
- Abstract | Essay
- "Reading Queerly: A Presentist's Confession"
- Gregory Tomso, Ithaca College
- Abstract | Essay
- "Critical Presentism"
- Phillip Barrish, University of Texas at Austin
- Abstract | Essay
- "Presentism and the Archives"
- Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University
- Abstract | Essay
- "A Bibliography of Romanticism and Contemporary Culture"
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February 2002
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