Shakespeare Studies Today: Romanticism Lost

Pechter, E.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-05-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230114197

DOI: 10.1057/9780230119369

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 238