{"id":28174,"date":"2018-01-25T15:47:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T23:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=28174"},"modified":"2018-01-31T16:02:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:02:26","slug":"28174-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/28174-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book by Mai-Lin Cheng: \u201cBritish Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book by CSWS faculty affiliate Mai-Lin Cheng \u201cexplores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of <em>human interest<\/em>.&#8221; <em>British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest <\/em>was published in December 2017 by Bucknell University Press and co-published by Rowman &amp; Littlefield. It is part of Bucknell\u2019s Series in Transits: Literature, Thought &amp; Culture, 1650\u20131850.<\/p>\n<p>Mai-Lin Cheng is an assistant professor of literature in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781611488685\/British-Romanticism-and-the-Literature-of-Human-Interest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Publisher\u2019s synopsis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/research\/books-film\/2017-affiliate-publications\/mai-lin-bookcover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28162\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28162\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Mai-Lin-bookcover-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"300\" width=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Mai-Lin-bookcover-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Mai-Lin-bookcover-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Mai-Lin-bookcover-260x400.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Mai-Lin-bookcover-160x246.jpg 160w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Mai-Lin-bookcover.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>\u201cImportant and novel &#8230; <em>British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest<\/em> shows convincingly that the topic of human interest, while it frequently comprises the content and orientation of a given text, more often animates its paratextual apparatus (title, preface, footnotes, marginal comments, letters written during composition of the text). That is, the question of human interest \u2026 is for Romantic writers primarily a formal matter played out in paratextual discussions of how best to depict a \u201chuman\u201d envisioned as strengthening our humanity.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Julie A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book by CSWS faculty affiliate Mai-Lin Cheng \u201cexplores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest.&#8221; British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest was published in December 2017 by Bucknell University Press and co-published&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/28174-2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,171,5],"tags":[722,626,158],"class_list":["post-28174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates","category-literature","category-research","tag-british-romanticism","tag-mai-lin-cheng","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28178,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28174\/revisions\/28178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}