ROMANTICISM AND THE RISE OF ENGLISH by Andrew Elfenbein ( 9780804760256 )

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ROMANTICISM AND THE RISE OF ENGLISH

By:

Andrew Elfenbein

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080476025X

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STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 October, 2008

Pages:

288

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Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century transformation of the English language.

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Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but to questions about the relation between literature and language that have vanished from contemporary investigation. His book is an example of a kind of work that has often been called for but rarely realized-a social philology that takes seriously the formal and institutional forces shaping the production of English. This results not only in a history of English, but also in a recovery of major events shaping English studies as a coherent discipline. This book points to new directions in literary criticism by arguing for the need to reconceptualize authorial agency in light of a broadened understanding of linguistic history.

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