This study, published in 2000, examines the dialogue between Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers p

First published in 2004. This study begins by surveying the field of modern hermeneutics. Noting its repeated crisis of self-legitimisation, it traces these to

The human sciences established and developed in the nineteenth century have slowly disintegrated. It is an ironic end. It was in the name of the greater legitim

This book presents a series of essays which focus on the role of Romantic philosophy and ideology in the sciences.

This book studies the rise and nature of historicist approaches to life, race, character, language, political economy, and empire. Arguing that Victorians under