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1531505120 rar New Critical Nostalgia weighs the future of literary study by reassessing its past. It tracks today's impassioned debates about method back to the disciplines early professional era, when an unprecedented makeover of American higher education with far-reaching social consequences resulted in what we might call our first crisis of academic life. Rovee probes literary studys nostalgic attachments to this past, by recasting an essential episode in the historiography of Englishthe vigorous rejection of romanticism by American New Criticsin the new light of the American universitys tectonic growth. In the process, he demonstrates literary studys profound investment in romanticism and reveals the romantic lyrics special affect, nostalgia, as having been part of Englishs professional identity all along. Read more