Contact details
- Name:
- Professor Jerome McGann
- Qualifications:
- Ph.D. Yale, M.A.Syracuse, B.S. LeMoyne
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Senior Research Fellow
- Institute:
- Institute of English Studies
- Home institution:
- University of Virginia
- Location:
- University of Virginia
- Email address:
- jmcgann@virginia.edu
- Website:
- http://www.engl.virginia.edu/people/jjm2f
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- English Literature
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, History and Theory of Texts
- Publication Details
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Related publications/articles:
Date Details 01-Jan-2014 A New Republic of Letters. Monographs
A New Republic of Letters. Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Harvard U. Press, 2014)
01-Jan-2014 The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Research aids
The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A Hypermedia Research Archive. (Begun in 1992, the Archive is being brought to its planned completion in May 2008. It is an online work consisting of some 25,000 text and image files of all of Rossetti’s textual and pictorial works, as well as many works of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement and other important contemporary materials, along with extensive editorial notes and commentaries on all of these materials). I continue to augment the project in regular ways.
11-Nov-2013 “Poetry and the Politics of a Poetry without Politics, “Poetry and the Politics of a Poetry without Politics,” Literature Compass 10. 11 (November 2013): Part 1, 871-884; Part 2, 885-894.
01-Sep-2013 Philology in a New Key Articles
"Philology in a New Key", Critical Inquiry 39.2 (2013): 327-346.
01-Sep-2013 Coda: Why Digital Textual Scholarship Matters; or, Philology in a New Key, Practice and Theory Papers
"Coda: Why Digital Textual Scholarship Matters; or, Philology in a New Key, Practice and Theory", in the The Cambridge Companion to Textual Scholarship, ed. Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013): 274-288.
01-Sep-2013 American Memory in Black Elk Speaks Articles
"American Memory in Black Elk Speaks", New Literary History 44. 3 (Summer 2013): 401-424.
01-Sep-2013 'The Bells’, Performance, and the Politics of Poetry Review
“’The Bells’, Performance, and the Politics of Poetry,” The Edgar Allan Poe Review 15.1 (Spring 2014) : 47-59.
01-Jan-2004 'Beauty, the Irreal, and the Willing Assumption of Disbelief' Journal articles
'Beauty, the Irreal, and the Willing Assumption of Disbelief', in Critical Inquiry 30, (Summer 2004)
01-Jan-2003 Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Collected Works Edited Book
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Collected Works (New Haven: Yale UP, 2003)
01-Jan-2003 Thomas Lovell Beddoe's Death's Jest. A Stage Version Monographs
Thomas Lovell Beddoe's Death's Jest. A Stage Version (Belper, Derbyshire: The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society, 2003)
01-Jan-2003 'Romantic Scholarship and Culture 1960-2001: A Byronic View' Chapters
'Romantic Scholarship and Culture 1960-2001: A Byronic View', in Byron and Greece, ed. Byron Raizis (Byron Society of Missolonghi: Athens, 2003)
01-Jan-2003 'Herbert Horne's Diversi Colores (1891): Incarnating the Religion of Beauty' Journal articles
'Herbert Horne's Diversi Colores (1891): Incarnating the Religion of Beauty', in New Literary History 34.3 (Summer 2003)
01-Jan-2003 'Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World' Chapters
'Textonics: Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World', in The Culture of Collected Editions, ed. Andrew Nash (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2003)
01-Jan-2002 Byron and Romanticism Cambridge University Press
01-Jan-2001 Radiant Textuality Palgrave Macmillan
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Research aids
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
'Text in N-Dimensions and Interpretations in a New Key' Journal articles
'Text in N-Dimensions and Interpretations in a New Key', Text Technology (Special Issue devoted to IVANHOE)
- Relevant Events
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Related events:
Date Details 01-Jul-2014 Reflections on Textual and Documentary Media in a Romantic and Post-Romantic Horizon “Reflections on Textual and Documentary Media in a Romantic and Post-Romantic Horizon” (U. of California, Berkeley, lecture: February 2014; NASSR Conference, July 2014)
01-Jul-2014 Victorian Poetry and Photography Seminar, Bread Loaf School Of English, Middlebury College, July 2014. ‘Victorian Poetry and Photography’.
03-Mar-2014 I A Richards and Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century Shows of London Seminar, Kings College London, March 2014. ‘I A Richards and Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century’.
03-Feb-2014 Reflections on Textual and Documentary Media in a Romantic and Post-Romantic Horizon “Reflections on Textual and Documentary Media in a Romantic and Post-Romantic Horizon” (U. of California, Berkeley, lecture: February 2014; NASSR Conference, July 2014)
01-Jan-2014 The Value of Literature ‘The Value of Literature’, Oxford University Symposium, January, 2014, Convener, Helen Small, Panel discussion.
01-Jan-2014 Shakespeare in Italy Shakespeare in Italy : 2014 Spring term course taught in Rome for U. of Washington
01-Nov-2013 University of Chicago Center for Poetics University of Chicago Center for Poetics, November 2013. Discussion of my unpublished essay ‘Towards a Perlocutionary Poetics’.
01-Nov-2013 Philological Investigations: The Title Page of Cooper’s The Pioneers Philological Investigations: The Title Page of Cooper’s The Pioneers (Rice University, November 2013)
01-Oct-2013 Digital Resources and Research Opportunities “Digital Resources and Research Opportunities” (Folger Shakespeare Library, October 2013)
01-Oct-2013 Felix Holt and Genealogy Annual George Eliot Conference, Romola and Felix Holt, Convener, Barbara Hardy, University of London, October 2013. ‘Felix Holt and Genealogy’.
01-Sep-2013 Archival Memory and the Philological Conscience “Archival Memory and the Philological Conscience,” Malkin Lecture, Rare Book School (Summer 2013)
01-Sep-2013 On Designing a Research Center for Manuscript Studies “On Designing a Research Center for Manuscript Studies” (U. of Cincinnati, September 2013)