Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)

Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Damian Walford Davies is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Romanticism, History, Historicism: Essays on an Orthodoxy ( Routledge Studies in Romanticism) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition . of the Centre for Romantic Studies, in the Department of English at Aberystwyth University, Wales.
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The first four essays 'assess the maladies, limits, eddies, and affective pull of New Historicism'.

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For me, these essays contain some of the most exciting writing in the volume. In 'The Incommensurable Value of Historicism', Tim Milnes laments rather than celebrates the 'persistence of historicism in its current form ', arguing that 'in the areas of "theory" and "methodology"' New Historicism 'damagingly constricts Romantic scholarship'. Unable to meet the 'challenge' it sets itself — that of clarifying 'its own theoretical and historical location' — Milnes argues that New Historicism is 'particularly susceptible to the critical contortions produced by any methodology that attempts to externalise its own value position'.

He closes by suggesting how 'historicism might begin to move beyond' its 'maladies' — by giving up 'the assumption that literary criticism needs to be underpinned by a "theory" of truth encompassing a "methodology"'. Beginning with the proposition that 'literary history and historicism are practiced in entirely different ways', 'The Hair of Milton: Historicism and Literary History' by Erik Gray argues that, however desirable it may be, reconciling the 'delineat[ion] of a particular historical moment' and 'the narrative sweep that literary history offers' is not only 'extraordinarily difficult' but also 'puzzled the Romantics' themselves.

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Discussing Keats's 'Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair', the essay details Keats's 'struggle to reconcile or at least acknowledge' Milton's 'material presence [ Highlighting just how very difficult it was for Keats to 'balance synchronic and diachronic versions of history', Gray nevertheless rather sidesteps this difficulty in concluding that this is now 'the challenge for historicist criticism', a criticism that has hitherto been 'almost entirely divorced from the diachronic considerations of literary history'.

Keats, the Picturesque, and the Limits of Historicization' focuses on 'Keats's achievement' particularly in 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and 'To Autumn' through the 'aperture' of the 'contemporary vogue aesthetic of the picturesque' in order to 'unsettle and invigorate the historicist conclusions of recent commentators' who find Keats's 'later landscapes [ Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.

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