The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation by Jerome McGann
Published 1983 · 182 pages · 85,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation to read?
The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation scores 69 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 63 out of 100
- Marxist and historicist critical vocabulary, clearly deployed.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Abstraction: 72 out of 100
- Theoretical argument about ideology and historical displacement.
- Information density: 73 out of 100
- Closely argued with textual and historical evidence.
- Narrative indirection: 14 out of 100
- Direct polemical argument.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- Analytical.
- Ironic distance: 18 out of 100
- The ideological critique is conducted with sharp ironic awareness.
- Resolution withholding: 14 out of 100
- Arguments reach polemical conclusions.
- Structural complexity: 38 out of 100
- Organized as a progressive critique moving from theory to specific authors.
How The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation is regarded
The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation holds a literary regard score of 84 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.