Critical Genealogies

Reassessing The Ancestry Of Contemporary Criticism Jonathan Arac Opens Current Debates Over English Studies To A Larger Understanding Of Cultural And Political History From Romanticism Through Postmodernism. This Work Of Creative Scholarship Enlarges Our Knowledge Of The History Of Criticism While Also Exemplifying A New Practice Of Writing Literary History. Arac Draws New Lines From Wordsworth Coleridge Shelley And Arnold To Their Modern Successors And To Recent Developments In Marxism And Poststructuralism.