The Romantic Ideology A Critical Investigation Jerome J. McGann ‘The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London“Tue University of Cwlenoo PRESS, Citcaco 60637 “Tie Uivensity of Chicago Press, Lro.. Lonpow 1© 1983 by The Universiy of Caiago ‘All gis reserved. Published 1983, ISBN 0226588509 apr {Te aera incubation mats he nin This book is dedicated to my students at the University of Chicago, 16-1975, ‘who taught me how to learn,‘The only portions that were not consumed were some fragments of bones, the skull, but what sorprised us all, was thatthe heart remoined entire. In snatching this relic from the fiery furnace, my hand was severely burnt; and had anyone seen me do the at I should have been put into quar . J, Trelawny on Shelley's cremation Contents Preface Introduction 1 Part I. ROMANTICISM AND ITs CRrTICAL REPRESENTATIONS. 1. Distinguishing Roma 0 2. Some Current Problems in Literary Criticism 21 3. Two Normative Theories of Romanticism and Heine's Critique 31 4. The Line of Coleridge and the Line of Hegel: Romantic Repetition and Romantic Reification 40 5. A Critical Theory of Ré Heine on Uhland (The Romant 49 Parr II. Romawmic Ipeas, Romawnic Poems, RoMANnic IbEOLOGIES 6. The Mental Theatre of Romantic Poems 9 7. Romantic and Non-Romantic Works: ‘Comparisons and Contrasts R 8. Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romantic Poems 81 Parr IIL. Cassanpra’s Gurr RoManmic POEMS AND THE CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY 9. Coleridge, “Kubla Khan,” and the Later Poetry 95 10. Phases of Enj 107 Romanticism