James Engell
Biographic Data
| ID | 973370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Engell |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Engell |
| SIGNATURE | ENGELL J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
Re-establishes the enduring presence and value of classical literature in the Romantic eraThe Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age reveals the extent to which writers now called romantic venerate and use classical texts to transform lyric and narrative poetry, the novel, mythology, politics, and issues of race and slavery, as well as to provide models for their own literary careers and personal lives. On both sides of the Atlantic the…
The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
The book reveals the extent to which writers we call “romantic” venerate and use the classics to serve their own ends in transforming poetry, epic, the novel, mythology, politics, and issues of race, as well as in practicing translation and reshaping models for a literary career and personal life. On both sides of the Atlantic the classics—including the surprising influence of Hebrew, regarded then as a classical language—play a major role in wha…
Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
Many writers in the earlier nineteenth century—major and canonical, well recognized, and minor—love and employ classical literature in order to transform and enliven their own work. They do not follow earlier attitudes and practices regarding ancient texts, though neither do they consider what they are doing to be a “romantic” abjuration in opposition to THE “classical.” Using the inheritance of a broad classicism rather than a narrowed neo-class…
Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
Coleridge: The Early Family Letters: The Early Family Letters
This volume of letters - the vast majority of which are previously unpublished - presents a remarkable, often moving, and extraordinary image of the Coleridge family during Samuel Taylor Coleridge's youth, particularly between 1772 and 1793, when the writer reached twenty-one. Revealing the strength of a family suffering repeated losses, James Engell places the Coleridge family letters in a larger biographical context, and offers a new, frank, ye…
Bruner and Vico: Psychology and Pedagogy
Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge
Introduction: The Originating Force of Eighteenth-Century criticism PART 1: METAMORPHOSES 1. Practical Theorist: Dryden's Variety of Models 2. The Paradox of Refinement: Progress and Decline in Literature 3. So Far Retir'd from Happy Pieties: The Rise of Modern Myth PART 2: JUDGEMENT AND VALUES, LITERARY AND SOCIAL 4. Non-Disputandum: Hume's Critique of Criticism 5. Estrangement: The Problem of Ethics and Aesthetics 6. Kinds, Canons, and Readers …
Teaching Literature: What Is Needed Now
Hugh Kenner, Helen Vendler, Harry Levin, Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Barbara Johnson, J. Hillis Miller, and seven other scholars, critics, and metacritics at the forefront of intellectual developments in their fields offer provocative statements on the teaching of literature and on their own practices as teachers. The authors, differing widely in their areas of interest and their approaches to literature, stress an inherent relation between the classro…
The Whole Internal Universe: Imitation and the New Defense of Poetry in British Criticism, 1660-1830
Leading Out Into the World: Vico’s New Education
The Logic of Passion: The Literary Criticism of William Hazlitt
Teaching Literature: What Is Needed Now
Hugh Kenner, Helen Vendler, Harry Levin, Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Barbara Johnson, J. Hillis Miller, and seven other scholars, critics, and metacritics at the forefront of intellectual developments in their fields offer provocative statements on the teaching of literature and on their own practices as teachers. The authors, differing widely in their areas of interest and their approaches to literature, stress an inherent relation between the classro…
The Logic of Passion: The Literary Criticism of William Hazlitt
Leading Out Into the World: Vico’s New Education
The Whole Internal Universe: Imitation and the New Defense of Poetry in British Criticism, 1660-1830
Forming the Critical Mind: Dryden to Coleridge
Introduction: The Originating Force of Eighteenth-Century criticism PART 1: METAMORPHOSES 1. Practical Theorist: Dryden's Variety of Models 2. The Paradox of Refinement: Progress and Decline in Literature 3. So Far Retir'd from Happy Pieties: The Rise of Modern Myth PART 2: JUDGEMENT AND VALUES, LITERARY AND SOCIAL 4. Non-Disputandum: Hume's Critique of Criticism 5. Estrangement: The Problem of Ethics and Aesthetics 6. Kinds, Canons, and Readers …
Teaching Literature: What Is Needed Now
Hugh Kenner, Helen Vendler, Harry Levin, Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Barbara Johnson, J. Hillis Miller, and seven other scholars, critics, and metacritics at the forefront of intellectual developments in their fields offer provocative statements on the teaching of literature and on their own practices as teachers. The authors, differing widely in their areas of interest and their approaches to literature, stress an inherent relation between the classro…
Bruner and Vico: Psychology and Pedagogy
Coleridge: The Early Family Letters: The Early Family Letters
This volume of letters - the vast majority of which are previously unpublished - presents a remarkable, often moving, and extraordinary image of the Coleridge family during Samuel Taylor Coleridge's youth, particularly between 1772 and 1793, when the writer reached twenty-one. Revealing the strength of a family suffering repeated losses, James Engell places the Coleridge family letters in a larger biographical context, and offers a new, frank, ye…
The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
Re-establishes the enduring presence and value of classical literature in the Romantic eraThe Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age reveals the extent to which writers now called romantic venerate and use classical texts to transform lyric and narrative poetry, the novel, mythology, politics, and issues of race and slavery, as well as to provide models for their own literary careers and personal lives. On both sides of the Atlantic the…
The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
The book reveals the extent to which writers we call “romantic” venerate and use the classics to serve their own ends in transforming poetry, epic, the novel, mythology, politics, and issues of race, as well as in practicing translation and reshaping models for a literary career and personal life. On both sides of the Atlantic the classics—including the surprising influence of Hebrew, regarded then as a classical language—play a major role in wha…
Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
Many writers in the earlier nineteenth century—major and canonical, well recognized, and minor—love and employ classical literature in order to transform and enliven their own work. They do not follow earlier attitudes and practices regarding ancient texts, though neither do they consider what they are doing to be a “romantic” abjuration in opposition to THE “classical.” Using the inheritance of a broad classicism rather than a narrowed neo-class…
Introduction: The Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age
Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Romance (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Mythology (3 works)