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Literary Milieux
. Ed(S): Womersley, David; Mccabe, Richard
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Hardback. Editor(s): Womersley, David; McCabe, Richard. Num Pages: 371 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 168 x 26. Weight in Grams: 717.
In the wake of the formalist 'New Critical' consensus of the mid-twentieth century, a central and recurrent problem in the field of literary study has been that of precisely how the literary text was to be related to the various and proliferating contexts that now jostled for critical attention. The quality of balanced judgment was suddenly especially valuable. These essays range over the fields of Erskine-Hill's own scholarship, from Shakespeare and early modern literature to Wordsworth, evincing in their own procedures and discriminations the influence of his own example: scrupulous care over the handling of evidence, an interdisciplinary impulse yoked ... Read more
In the wake of the formalist 'New Critical' consensus of the mid-twentieth century, a central and recurrent problem in the field of literary study has been that of precisely how the literary text was to be related to the various and proliferating contexts that now jostled for critical attention. The quality of balanced judgment was suddenly especially valuable. These essays range over the fields of Erskine-Hill's own scholarship, from Shakespeare and early modern literature to Wordsworth, evincing in their own procedures and discriminations the influence of his own example: scrupulous care over the handling of evidence, an interdisciplinary impulse yoked ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
371
Condition
New
Number of Pages
371
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493276
SKU
V9781611493276
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Womersley, David; Mccabe, Richard
David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Richard McCabe is professor of English literature at the University of Oxford.
Reviews for Literary Milieux
In the sixteen essays of Literary Milieux we find, as promised, an exceptional interpenetration of text and context, as well as original insights into major works of literature across a wide chronological range.
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