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Romantic form and new historicism
Wordsworth's "lines written a few miles above Tintern abbey"
pp. 95-115
Abstract
These are some of the big claims with which Jerome McGann famously inaugurated the new historicist transformation of Romantic Studies. From the start, Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey" was one of new histor-icism's exemplary texts. For McGann himself, Tintern Abbey" perfectly demonstrates the kind of "poetic conceptualization" that for him characterises Romantic literature, "whereby the actual human issues with which the poetry is concerned are resituated in a variety of idealized locations".1
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Published in:
Rawes Alan (2007) Romanticism and form. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 95-115
Full citation:
Rawes Alan (2007) „Romantic form and new historicism: Wordsworth's "lines written a few miles above Tintern abbey"“, In: A. Rawes (ed.), Romanticism and form, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 95–115.