Description: Romanticism and the Rise of English by Andrew Elfenbein Romanticism and the Rise of English provides a revisionary account of Romantic literature in light of the eighteenth-century transformation of the English language. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Andrew Elfenbein is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, GLBT Scholar in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Cognitive Sciences. Table of Contents @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgementsxxx @toc2:Introduction: The Dust of Philology1 Chapter 1: Purifying English000 Chapter 2: Romantic Syntax000 Chapter 3: Bad Englishes000 Chapter 4: Sounding Meaning000 Chapter 5: Sentencing Romanticism000 Chapter 6: Afterlives: Philology, Elocution, Composition000 Afterword000 @toc4:List of Abbreviations000 Notes000 Works Cited000 Index000 Review "Admirable for its breadth, the book dwells mainly on the canonical Romantic writers but also spends time with composition manuals, grammar books, dictionaries, and guides to pronunciation... Elfenbein succeeds in making what might seem a musty and highly specialized topic relevant to contemporary literary criticism and the classroom teaching of English and composition... [G]enuinely compelling and deserves a wider audience than Romantic studies." - Grant F. Scott, Modern Philology "Andrew Elfenbeins insightful, informative, and often surprsing new book opens with an introduction that dusts off the concept and the tradition of philology." - William Keach, Wordsworth Circle "Elfenbein offers a well-informed analysis of British Romantic literature from the perspective of the history of the English language. His fascinating book provides important new insights into the complex and troubled relationship between the eighteenth-century purveyors of standard English and the various bad Englishes employed by poets and playwrights of the Romantic period. It offers ample opportunity for reflection upon what is fundamentally at stake in the teaching of English in the twenty-first century, when the profession of English seems to have lost touch with any common core of disciplinary knowledge. Elfenbein encourages all professors of English to re-examine what it is that they profess." - James C. McKusick, New Books on Line 19 "The product of wide-ranging research, acute critical intelligence, and a mature knowledge of English studies, Romanticism and the Rise of English is that rare book that changes minds, pleases readers, and presents highly original, stimulating arguments about what seem to be unpopular ways of thinking." - Dianne F. Sadoff and John Kucich, SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 "...undeniably fascinating and important book." - David Simpson, Modern Language Quarterly Long Description Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Romanticism 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. Review Quote "...undeniably fascinating and important book."--David Simpson, Modern Language Quarterly "English professors now study everything except English, begins this breathtakingly learned, imaginative, and rewarding study of late- 18th- and early-19th-century literature and authorship. ... Everywhere Elfenbein fleshes out generalizations with persuasive close readings that have something genuine to say about works (by Austen, Scott, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Shelley) one thought one knew well."-- CHOICE "Elfenbeins outstanding and provocative book returns to questions about Romanticism and language incompletely explored in the scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s and presents an argument that is informed by but goes beyond the historicist work so influential these past fifteen to twenty years."----William Keach, Brown University "This is an important and original work by one of British Romanticisms most innovative voices. Romanticism and the Rise of English is a broadly arching account of how Romanticism created the terms for how we conceive of and use the English language. It is an impressive call for radical thinking about language as at the root of literature and for how we read it."--Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania Details ISBN080476025X Author Andrew Elfenbein Short Title ROMANTICISM & THE RISE OF ENGL Publisher Stanford University Press Language English ISBN-10 080476025X ISBN-13 9780804760256 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2008 Imprint Stanford University Press Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Residence US Affiliation University of Minnesota Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780804760256 UK Release Date 2008-10-30 AU Release Date 2008-10-30 NZ Release Date 2008-10-30 US Release Date 2008-10-30 Pages 288 Publication Date 2008-10-30 Alternative 9780804769891 DEWEY 820.9007 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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