Shakespeare Studies Today: Romanticism Lost (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230114197)

The Romantics invented Shakespeare studies, and in losing contact with our origins, we have not been able to develop an adequate alternative foundation on which to build our work. This book asserts that among Shakespeareans at present, the level of conviction required to sustain a healthy critical practice is problematically if not dangerously low, and the qualities which the Romantics valued in an engagement with Shakespeare are either ignored these days or fundamentally misunderstood.

Author: E. Pechter
ISBN-10: 0230114199
ISBN-13: 9780230114197
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2011
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.70d