# Jerome Mcgann

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Episode 48 - Angelic Poems: Edgar Allen Poe, "Dream-Land"

A discussion of Poe's "Dream-Land" with Jerome McGann, John Timpane and Tom Devaney

19 - The New Historicism

In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry examines the work of two seminal New Historicists, Stephen Greenblatt and Jerome McGann. The origins of New Historicism in Early Modern literary studies are explored, and New Historicism's common strategies, preferred evidence, and literary sites are explored. Gr…

Episode 48 - Angelic Poems: Edgar Allen Poe, "Dream-Land"

A discussion of Poe's "Dream-Land" with Jerome McGann, John Timpane and Tom Devaney

Cain - Lord Byron

Unleashed academics, tutors, and ornamental hermits Alice and Rowan do a deep dive into dark hero archetypes on a semi-weekly basis. On this episode they consider another of Lord Byron’s closet dramas, the controversial Cain (1821). The pair discuss Byron’s characterisation of the first murderer …

Manfred - Lord Byron

Unleashed academics, tutors, and ornamental hermits Alice and Rowan do a deep dive into dark hero archetypes on a semi-weekly basis. On this episode they begin their discussion of Gothic villains by examining Byron’s 1817 closet drama Manfred and its debt to the Gothic tradition. The pair discuss …

Professor Jerome McGann - Truth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions

Professor Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) will give a public lecture as part of the CRASSH Mellon CDI Visitng Fellowship programme. Abstract As my title suggests, Hans-George Gadamer's dialectic of enlightenment is my point of reference. I mean to recover and revise Gadamer's thought by sh…

The digitized afterlives of cultural objects.

What is the opposite of “big” data? In a society where households commonly store personal archives of photos, financial records, and other documents, the “little” database—the personal data collection that is stored and backed up and not accessed frequently—deserves a category of its own. In The Li…