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"Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign."
- William Cowper
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| | Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Revolt against Theory
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| | by David Simpson
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 Format: Paperback, 254 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226759466
Release Date: Jan 4, 1993
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Why has Anglo-American culture for so long regarded "theory" with intense suspicion? In this important contribution to the history of critical theory, David Simpson argues that a nationalist myth underlies contemporary attacks on theory. Theory's antagonists, Simpson shows, invoke the same criteria of common sense and national solidarity as did the British intellectuals who rebelled against "theory" and "method" during the French Revolution.
Simpson demonstrates the close association between "theory" and "method" and shows that by the mid-eighteenth century, "method" had acquired distinctly subversive associations in England. Attributed increasingly to the French and the Germans, "method" paradoxically evoked images both of inhuman rationality and unbridled sentimentality; in either incarnation, it was seen as a threat to what was claimed to be authentically British. Simpson develops these paradigms in relation to feminism, the gendering of Anglo-American culture, and the emergence of literature and literary criticism as antitheoretical discourses. He then looks at the Romantic poets' response to this confining ideology of the cultural role of literature. Finally, Simpson considers postmodern theory's claims for the radical energy of nonrational or antirationalist positions.
This is an essential book not only for students of the Romantic period and intellectual historians concerned with the idea of "method," but for anyone interested in the historical background of today's debates over the excesses and possibilities of "theory." David Simpson is professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | Introduction: A History for Theory | 1 | | 1 | The Politics of Method | 19 | | Peter Ramus, Martyr | 19 | | The Method of the English Revolution | 25 | | John Wesley, Methodist | 32 | | 2 | The Culture of British Common Sense | 40 | | Us and Them | 40 | | Sticking to the Facts | 43 | | The Trials of Reason | 52 | | Burke, Coleridge, and the Method of Nature | 57 | | 3 | The Myth of French Excess | 64 | | A Nation of Philosophers | 64 | | System and Sensibility: Rousseau | 76 | | 4 | The Image of Germany | 84 | | Conspirators and Freemasons | 84 | | Scandal on the Stage | 89 | | The Derangements of Theory | 94 | | 5 | Engendering Method | 104 | | The Case for Female Reason | 104 | | A Revolution among Women | 113 | | 6 | System and Literature | 126 | | The Sublime: A Masculine Confusion | 126 | | The Place of English Literature | 131 | | A Theory of Imprecision: Utilitarianism | 142 | | 7 | A Radical Literature? | 149 | | Plotting the Middle Ground | 149 | | The Wordsworth Question | 152 | | The Struggle with Albion's Angels: William Blake | 159 | | Eroticism and Futurity: Shelley and Keats | 164 | | 8 | Thoughts on the Present Discontents | 172 | | A Revolution That Will Not Finish | 172 | | The Problem of Theory in the Postmodern | 180 | | Notes | 189 | | Bibliography | 213 | | Index | 237 |
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