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Shakespeare Studies Today

Romanticism Lost
By:E. Pechter
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230114197
eText ISBN:9780230119369
Edition:0
Copyright:2011
Format:Page Fidelity

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The Romantics invented Shakespeare studies, and in losing contact with our origins, we have not been able to develop an adequate alternative foundation on which to build our work.  This book asserts that among Shakespeareans at present, the level of conviction required to sustain a healthy critical practice is problematically if not dangerously low, and the qualities which the Romantics valued in an engagement with Shakespeare are either ignored these days or fundamentally misunderstood.