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Description: Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
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Jerome Mcgann BYRON AND THE POETICS OF ADVERSITY (Cambridge UP, 2023) xi + 214 pp. Reviewed by Jonathan Sachs on 2024-02-09 Jerome McGann is perhaps best known for his pithy and polemical argument about the "Romantic Ideology," the tendency of Romantic poets to believe that their writing could transcend the material circumstances that produced it and the tendency of Romantic scholars to accept uncritically this self-representation by Romantic poets. Click here to read the full review. Caleb Smith THOREAU'S
Graham Davidson THE INTELLIGIBLE ODE: INTIMATIONS OF PARADISE (Lutterworth, 2023) x + 265 pp. Reviewed by Lisa Ann Roberson on 2027-07-12 Romantic Poetry When it first appeared at the end of William Wordsworth's Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), the Immortality Ode was called "illegible and unintelligible" by Wordsworth's nemesis Francis Jeffrey (qtd. Click here to read the full review. Daniel Wright THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL (Stanford, 2024) xvi + 229 pp. Reviewed by Timothy Gao on 2024-07-02 Victorian Fiction
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