The Supplement of Reading

Download or read book The Supplement of Reading written by Tilottama Rajan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.