Jerome Mcgann

Biographic Data

ID277439
NAMEJerome Mcgann
GIVEN NAMESJerome
FAMILY NAMEMcgann
SIGNATUREMCGANN J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Virginia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS65
TOTAL CITATIONS68
AUTHOR COUNT63
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies

    Jerome McgannARTICLECritical Inquiry2025

  • The Cambridge Companion to Byron: Second Edition

    Open AccessPaul Douglas, Tom Mole et al.BOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Byron2023

    Deeply informed and appealingly written, this revised and updated second edition gives fresh life to the enthralling sexual, poetic and political contradictions that make Byron the first literary celebrity. Encompassing his entire oeuvre, the volume both provides an authoritative guide for students, and points to emerging new areas of research, highlighting Byron's ongoing relevance in an increasingly complex world both within academia and beyond…

  • Byron and the Poetics of Adversity

    Jerome McgannBOOKByron and the Poetics of Adversity2022

  • Breakthrough into Performance: A Touchstone Work of Late Modernist American Poetry

    Jerome McgannARTICLEPAJ: A Journal of Performance and…2022References: 1

  • From Cultural Memory to Living Word: On Mather's Magnalia

    Jerome McgannARTICLENew Literary History2019

    Keying off Reiner Smolinski's study of the Magnalia and three other early New England histories, McGann argues for a more rigorously philological approach to Mather's magnum opus. Though it represents itself, as Sacvan Berkovitch showed, as a testament to "the redemptive meaning of America", a close inquiry into the Magnalia's documentary condition argues that the importance and "greatness" of the work lies in its dynamic incoherencies. The histo…

  • Colonial Exceptionalism on Native Grounds: American Literature before American Literature

    Jerome McgannARTICLECritical Inquiry2019References: 5

  • Romantic Subjects and Iambic Laws: Episodes in the Early History of Contract Negotiations

    Jerome McgannARTICLENew Literary History2018Cited by: 1

    The prosodic innovations of free verse, prose poetry, and concrete poetry that overwhelmed poetic practices in the later nineteenth and throughout the twentieth century were grounded in Romantic ideas and practices with vernacular language. While the key agents of change were Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron, John Thelwall’s involvement with the British Elocutionary Movement was equally crucial. What Pound called “the first heave” toward prosodic…

  • Young Men and the Sea

    Algernon Charles Swinburne, Jerome Mcgann et al.BOOKYoung Men and the Sea2017

    Two centuries of American maritime history, in which the Atlantic Ocean remained the great frontier Westward expansion has been the great narrative of the first two centuries of American history, but as historian Daniel Vickers demonstrates here, the horizon extended in all directions. For those who lived along the Atlantic coast, it was the East and the Atlantic Ocean that beckoned. While historical and fictional accounts have tended to stress t…

  • Rethinking Delany's Blake

    Jerome McgannARTICLECallaloo2016

    Rethinking Delany's Blake Jerome McGann (bio) Martin Delany's Blake was at once the most important and the least consequential work of fiction published by a black writer in the nineteenth century. Most important, because of the intellectual scope of its representations, least consequential because it caught the attention of almost no one for nearly one hundred years after its publication.1 Consider first of all its importance. No work of America…

  • The Point Is To Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

    Jerome McgannBOOKPoint Is to Change It2015

  • Truth and Method: Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions

    Jerome McgannARTICLEInterdisciplinary Science Reviews2015References: 2

    Hans-George Gadamer’s dialectic of enlightenment is my point of reference. I mean to recover and revise Gadamer’s thought by shifting it from a philosophical to a philological perspective. From the living example of certain individuals, I propose a model of humanist inquiry that seems to me worth preserving and emulating, particularly now when educational policy is reinvesting so heavily in the technical expertise offered by the STEM disciplines …

  • American Memory in Black Elk Speaks

    Jerome McgannARTICLENew Literary History2013

    Black Elk Speaks is now generally understood to be John Neihardt's highly idiosyncratic representation of his interviews with Black Elk. While this is certainly the case, Black Elk's worldviews nonetheless can be recognized if we carefully track the patterns of misrecognition that pervade Neihardt's book. For it can be shown that as Neihardt works to channel Black Elk, Black Elk is channeling Neihardt. When that reciprocal process is critically e…

  • Philology in a New Key

    Jerome McgannARTICLECritical Inquiry2013Cited by: 7References: 1

  • The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature

    Open AccessDavid Finkelstein, L Price et al.BOOKThe Cambridge history of…2012

    This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1…

  • Special Issue: ‘Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century’– Combined Bibliography

    Open AccessJerome Mcgann, Hans Walter Gabler et al.ARTICLELiterature Compass2010

    This piece is the combined bibliography for the Literature Compass special issue on ‘Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century’. The special issue is made up of the following pieces: ‘Special Issue: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century”– Preface’, Regenia Gagnier, Literature Compass 7.2 (2010): 33–34, doi: 10.1111/j.1741‐4113.2009.00672.x . ‘Special Issue: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century”– Introduction’, Arthur F. Mar…

  • Electronic Archives and Critical Editing

    Open AccessJerome McgannARTICLELiterature Compass2010References: 1

    Developments in traditional editorial theory and method that came into prominence 25 years ago have converged with more recent online IT resources to establish important, perhaps even breakthrough, approaches to the ways we pursue the scholarly investigation of cultural materials. Various online projects illustrate the widespread effort to create digital tools and environments for studying cultural materials at remarkable levels of complexity. Sc…

  • Recitation Considered as a Fine Art

    Jerome McgannARTICLEEnglish Language Notes2009

    Research Article| March 01 2009 Recitation Considered as a Fine Art Jerome McGann Jerome McGann University of Virginia [email protected] Jerome McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is Are the Humanities Inconsequent? (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009). Rice University Press will publish his facsimile edition of Stephen Crane's The Black Riders and Other Lines in late 2009. Search f…

  • Literary History and Editorial Method: Poe and Antebellum America

    Jerome McgannARTICLENew Literary History2009

  • Collected Poetry and Prose

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jerome McgannBOOKCollected Poetry and Prose2008

  • The Future is Digital

    Jerome McgannARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2008References: 1

  • Swinburne, “Hertha,” and the Voice of Language

    Open AccessJerome McgannARTICLEVictorian Literature and Culture2008References: 1

    This soaring passage comes from Max Müller's celebrated 1855 essay on linguistic anthropology. I start with it because no brief text better captures the import of Swinburne's poetic manifesto “Hertha.” And “Hertha” is important because, like “Anactoria,” it is pivotal in Swinburne's ambitious poetic program

  • A Response to “Recantorium”

    Jerome McgannARTICLECritical Inquiry2008

  • Pseudodoxia Academica

    Jerome McgannARTICLENew Literary History2008

  • Like Leaving the Nile. Ivanhoe, a User's Manual

    Open AccessJerome McgannARTICLELiterature Compass2005

  • Culture and technology: The way we live now, what is to be done

    Jerome McgannARTICLEInterdisciplinary Science Reviews2005Cited by: 1References: 2

    This paper addresses the so called 'crisis in the humanities' in the context of two of its most apparent symptoms: the digital transformation of our museums and archives, and the explicitly parallel 'crisis in tenure and publishing' that has more recently come to attention. It introduces and frames a practical proposal, now under way, for dealing with both. This is the NINES initiative – Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic …