Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Literary Criticism Gothic & Romance

The Supplement of Reading

Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice

by (author) Tilottama Rajan

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2018
Category
Gothic & Romance, Semiotics & Theory, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Recommended Age
18
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781501728082
    Publish Date
    Aug 2018
    List Price
    $26.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780801420450
    Publish Date
    Oct 1990
    List Price
    $76.95

Classroom Resources

Where to buy it

Description

Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading investigates the role of the reader both in romantic literary texts and in the hermeneutic theory that has responded to and generated such texts. Rajan considers how selected works by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft explore the problem of understanding in relation to interpretive difference, including the differences produced by gender, class, and history.

About the author

Tilottama Rajan is Canada Research Chair and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism (also published by Cornell University Press), Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollestonecraft.

Tilottama Rajan's profile page

Editorial Reviews

In addition to offering an always subtle, often brilliant analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century modes of understanding, The Supplement of Reading meditates thoughtfully on the more recent transitional period during which literary studies moved with varying degrees of resoluteness from poststructuralism to cultural criticism.

The Wordsworth Circle