The History of Missed Opportunities - by William Galperin (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Through close engagement with the work of Wordsworth, Austen, and Byron, this study posits the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event in the Romantic period, analyzing the practices of retrospection to which it gave rise.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Through close engagement with the work of Wordsworth, Austen, and Byron, this study posits the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event in the Romantic period, analyzing the practices of retrospection to which it gave rise.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>The History of Missed Opportunities</i> is essential. It is a provocative and rewarding book, and its contributions to our understanding of the works it addresses and of Romanticism more broadly are, by turns, compelling and disquieting.--Andrew Franta "<i>Modern Philology</i>"<br><br><i>The History of Missed Opportunities</i>, like the best literary criticism, takes readers back to the texts and the very lines that are most familiar and reveals things that have been overlooked all along, potential meanings that were missed. Only, in this case, the missed opportunities are the uncanny subject of the criticism itself . . . .This book will resonate strongly not only within romantic studies but perhaps more so beyond given the cultural moment, which harbors nostalgia as a habitus, and the deft analyses herein . . . . [T]he book marvelously identifies a latent utopian aesthetic that many have felt in reading and teaching, and teaching again, the literature of the past.--Jonathan Farina "<i>The Wordsworth Circle </i>"<br><br>[Galperin's] findings help us to see these authors and their characters as complex, self-interrogating, and self-critical figures.--Richard Eldridge "<i>Review 19</i>"<br><br>[T]he book's strength lies . . . in its deft and sensitive readings. . . .a provocative reminder that the passions, idealizations, and subjective consolidations with which we associate Romanticism exist alongside its commitments to the quotidian and the particular.--Andrea Henderson "<i>SEL Studies in English Literature </i>"<br><br>Galperin's reassessments of Wordsworth and Austen make familiar texts new again, and his discussion of Byron is utterly compelling. <i>The History of Missed Opportunities</i> offers insights aplenty, some truly stunning readings, and a tremendous provocation to the field.--Deidre Lynch "Harvard University"<br><br>Philosophically adventurous and stylistically exacting, as well as frequently entertaining, Galperin's idiosyncratic rereadings form a genuinely new characterization of British Romanticism.--Tristram Wolff "<i>Nineteenth-Century Contexts</i>"<br><br>Saying more than some books twice its size, Galperin's book is an imaginative and savvy piece of scholarship and criticism.--Orrin Wang "University of Maryland"<br><br>The critical yield of <i>The History of Missed Opportunities</i> is the dramatic and rewarding reorientation it presents in historical thinking within the study of Romanticism.... Galperin's study challenges us to reconsider an image of history that would move us through a past, present, and then a future, and it illuminates literature's role in assimilating and reencountering forms of experience that history itself may miss.--Magdalena Ostas "<i>Studies in Romanticism</i>"<br><br>This book distills much of what is best in Galperin's previous work, taking it into newly ambitious conceptual terrain....[It] conceives of its themes through such a powerful dialectic and provides such original readings of its chosen texts that it clearly exemplifies much that is most compelling about Romantic studies today. It is a must-read book for any scholar in the field.--David Collings "<i>Keats-Shelley Journal</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>William H. Galperin</b> is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of <i>The Historical Austen</i> (2003).
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