LEADER 03761nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910780257203321 005 20210622023034.0 010 $a0-231-50747-X 024 7 $a10.7312/lere12372 035 $a(CKB)111087026931524 035 $a(EBL)909121 035 $a(OCoLC)826476616 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000149030 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11162076 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149030 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10237774 035 $a(PQKB)11315081 035 $a(DE-B1597)459055 035 $a(OCoLC)979628411 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231507479 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909121 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183429 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL853722 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909121 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087026931524 100 $a20020605d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aError and the academic self$b[electronic resource] $ethe scholarly imagination, medieval to modern /$fSeth Lerer 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-12373-6 311 0 $a0-231-12372-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tintroduction. The Pursuit of Error: Philology, Rhetoric, and the History of Scholarship --$tChapter one. Errata: Mistakes and Masters in the Early Modern Book --$tChapter two. Sublime Philology: An Elegy for Anglo-Saxon Studies --$tChapter three. My Casaubon: The Novel of Scholarship and Victorian Philology --$tChapter four. Ardent Etymologies: American Rhetorical Philology, from Adams to de Man --$tChapter five. Making Mimesis: Exile, Errancy, and Erich Auerbach --$tEpilogue. Forbidden Planet and the Terrors of Philology --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aHow and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, émigrés, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and rhetoric, literary criticism, and literary theory. Examining a diverse group that includes Thomas More, Stephen Greenblatt, George Hickes, Seamus Heaney, George Eliot, and Paul de Man, Error and the Academic Self argues that this critical abstraction from society and retreat into ivory towers allowed estranged individuals to gain both a sense of private worth and the public legitimacy of a professional identity. 606 $aEnglish philology$xHistory 606 $aScholarly publishing$zGreat Britain 606 $aErrors and blunders, Literary$xHistory 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aError$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life 615 0$aEnglish philology$xHistory. 615 0$aScholarly publishing 615 0$aErrors and blunders, Literary$xHistory. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aError$xHistory. 676 $a820.9 700 $aLerer$b Seth$f1955-$01473876 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780257203321 996 $aError and the academic self$93687220 997 $aUNINA