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Romanticism and the Rise of English
Andrew Elfenbein
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Description for Romanticism and the Rise of English
Paperback. Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century transformation of the English language. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; CF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 386.
Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009
Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but to questions about the relation between literature and language that have vanished from contemporary investigation. His book is an example of a kind of work that has often been called for but rarely realized—a social philology that takes seriously the formal and institutional forces shaping the production of English. This results not only ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804773621
SKU
V9780804773621
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About Andrew Elfenbein
Andrew Elfenbein is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, GLBT Scholar in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Cognitive Sciences.
Reviews for Romanticism and the Rise of English
"Admirable for its breadth, the book dwells mainly on the canonical Romantic writers but also spends time with composition manuals, grammar books, dictionaries, and guides to pronunciation. . . Elfenbein succeeds in making what might seem a musty and highly specialized topic relevant to contemporary literary criticism and the classroom teaching of English and composition. . . [G]enuinely compelling and ... Read more