Romancing Fascism argues that intellectual responsibility can only be safeguarded if criticism is mobilised both as a poetic and as a critically enlightened endeavour. In this analysis of allegory as a function of modernity, what is made clear is the difficulty, if not impossibi…
Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism serves as both introduction to Cavell for Romanticists, and to the larger question of what philosophy means for the reading of literature, as well as to the importance and relevance of Romantic literature to Cavell's thought. Illustrated th…
En son sens le plus large, le romantisme est une crise de la conscience européenne au moment du basculement dans le monde moderne. Contre la raison et les règles du classicisme, contre un certain bon goût à la française aussi, se produisit une révolte esthétique qui remit au pre…
"Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollst…
[This is a] book on the history of criticism. [It] is for students of the romantic movement and indeed of the whole theory of criticism. [It is also] for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for English literary history ... and aesthetics.-Back cover.
