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Product Identifiers

PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press

ISBN-101421425548

ISBN-139781421425542

eBay Product ID (ePID)240016384

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

Publication NameRomantic Shades and Shadows

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

SubjectModern / 18th Century, General, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

AuthorSusan J. Wolfson

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-039406

ReviewsThe extensive critical and literary reach of Romantic Shades and Shadows is impressive... Wolfson is not alone in acknowledging the ghostliness of Romantic poetics. Yet her inventive readings of the spectral, its haunts, and hauntings do press upon us the necessity, as Nietzsche writes, of having 'friends as ghosts' if we are, as Wolfson's Afterword urges, to penetrate beneath the textual surface and hear the hauntingly instructive voices of past, present, and future shades., [Wolfson's] witty meditation on the complex textual admixture of the intentional and the unintentional reveals both how much various writers know and how much they don't seem to know (or remember) that they know. Consuming their work, the sentient reader (whom Wolfson models for us) grows ever more aware of the mind-bending complexity of the referentiality of words that have been used, abused, reused, refashioned, repurposed in ways that trace their shadowy prior lives in the wordy works of any writer's contemporaries and predecessors., How supremely quotable Wolfson is. From beginning to end, Romantic Shades and Shadows is engrossing, challenging, and deeply rewarding, one of the very best books published on Romantic poetry this decade. It will haunt us all., This challenging study of apparitional epistemology is not for the fainthearted. Including extensive and interesting page notes, this book is for specialists with a linguistic background., ""A magnificent achievement in verse reading'and prose reading'and, indeed, reading of a range of significant Romantic authorships in their historic moments. It should be welcomed by everyone with a ready eye."", A magnificent achievement in verse reading--and prose reading--and, indeed, reading of a range of significant Romantic authorships in their historic moments. It should be welcomed by everyone with a ready eye.

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal820.9/145

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Texts Abbreviations 1. Setting the Stage: Apparitions of Writing 2. Shades of Will + Words + Worth : What's in a Name? 3. Hazlitt's Conjurings: First Acquaintance & "Quaint Allusion" 4. Shelley's Phantoms of the Future in 1819 5. Me and My Shadows: Byron's Company of Ghosts 6. Shades of Relay: Yeats's Latent Keats / Keats's Latent Yeats 7. After Wording: Writing of Apparitions Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

SynopsisHaunting's consequences for the literary imagination. Reading is a weirdly phantasmic trade: animating words to revive absent voices, rehearing the past, fantasizing a future. In Romantic Shades and Shadows , Susan J. Wolfson explores spectral language, formations, and sensations, defining an apparitional poetics in the finely grained textures of writing and their effects on present reading. Framed by an introductory chapter on writing and apparition and an afterword on haunted reading, the book includes chapters of sustained, revelatory close attention to the particular, often peculiar, literary imaginations of William Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, W. B. Yeats, and John Keats. Wolfson also explores the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (a self-confessed Ghost-Theorist), Mary Shelley, and other writers of the Long Romantic era, canonical as well as less familiar. All are encountered in freshly pointed ways on an arc of investigation that builds with generative force. Romantic Shades and Shadows is written with a lucidity, wit, and accessibility that will appeal to general readers, and with a critical sophistication and scholarly expertise that will engage advanced students, critics, and professional peers., Reading is a weirdly phantasmic trade: animating words to revive absent voices, rehearing the past, fantasizing a future. In Romantic Shades and Shadows , Susan J. Wolfson explores spectral language, formations, and sensations, defining an apparitional poetics in the finely grained textures of writing and their effects on present reading. Framed by an introductory chapter on writing and apparition and an afterword on haunted reading, the book includes chapters of sustained, revelatory close attention to the particular, often peculiar, literary imaginations of William Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, W. B. Yeats, and John Keats. Wolfson also explores the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (a self-confessed Ghost-Theorist), Mary Shelley, and other writers of the Long Romantic era, canonical as well as less familiar. All are encountered in freshly pointed ways on an arc of investigation that builds with generative force. Romantic Shades and Shadows is written with a lucidity, wit, and accessibility that will appeal to general readers, and with a critical sophistication and scholarly expertise that will engage advanced students, critics, and professional peers., Reading is a weirdly phantasmic trade: animating words to revive absent voices, rehearing the past, fantasizing a future. In Romantic Shades and Shadows , Susan J. Wolfson explores spectral language, formations, and sensations, defining an apparitional poetics in the finely grained textures of writing and their effects on present ......

LC Classification NumberPR468.R65W656 2018