Literary Criticism Gothic & Romance
The Supplement of Reading
Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2018
- Category
- Gothic & Romance, Semiotics & Theory, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781501728082
- Publish Date
- Aug 2018
- List Price
- $26.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780801420450
- Publish Date
- Oct 1990
- List Price
- $76.95
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Description
Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading investigates the role of the reader both in romantic literary texts and in the hermeneutic theory that has responded to and generated such texts. Rajan considers how selected works by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft explore the problem of understanding in relation to interpretive difference, including the differences produced by gender, class, and history.
About the author
Tilottama Rajan is Canada Research Chair and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism (also published by Cornell University Press), Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollestonecraft.
Editorial Reviews
In addition to offering an always subtle, often brilliant analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century modes of understanding, The Supplement of Reading meditates thoughtfully on the more recent transitional period during which literary studies moved with varying degrees of resoluteness from poststructuralism to cultural criticism.
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