Vacillating between the longue dur e and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between the contrary formalisms of close and distant reading, literary historians operate with such disparate senses of what the term "history" means that the field risks compartmentalization and estrangement.
Focusing attention on Romant.
The Romantic Historicism to Come engages this uncertainty in order to construct a more robust, more capacious idea of history.
Vacillating between the longue dur e and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between the contrary formalisms of close and distant reading, literary historians operate with such disparate senses of what the term "history" means that the field risks compartmentalization and estrangement
