Download or read book Critical Genealogies written by Jonathan Arac and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1987-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassessing the ancestry of contemporary criticism, Jonathan Arac opens current debates over English studies to a larger understanding of cultural and political history, from romanticism through postmodernism. This work of creative scholarship enlarges our knowledge of the history of criticism while also exemplifying a new practice of writing literary history. Arac draws new lines from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Arnold to their modern successors and to recent developments in Marxism and poststructuralism.