Description
New Critical Nostalgia explores literary study's nostalgic attachments to its past by recasting an essential episode in the historiography of English-the vigorous rejection of romanticism by American New Critics-in the new light of the midcentury American university's tectonic growth.
About the Author
Christopher Rovee is Robert Penn Warren Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is author of Imagining the Gallery: The Social Body of British Romanticism.