What's the Import?
Nineteenth-Century Poems and Contemporary Critical Practice
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2007
- Category
- Poetry, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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- ISBN
- 9780773578647
- Publish Date
- May 2007
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
Kerry McSweeney critiques such readings of Romantic, Victorian, and 19th-century American poems. In What's the Import? he proposes and exemplifies an aesthetic or intrinsic critical model rooted in literary-historical contextualization that considers the determination of meanings to be only one of the qualities that full engagement with a poem requires. His wide-ranging study discusses poems by Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson, Carroll, Dante and Christina Rossetti, Swinburne, Hopkins, Hardy, and the Michael Field poets. What's the Import? contributes to the current debates in North America about the state and direction of English studies and the teaching of literature in general.
About the author
Kerry McSweeney is Molson Professor of English, McGill University, and the author of numerous works, including The Language of the Senses: Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson.
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