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Why literary periods mattered : historical contrast and the prestige of English studies / Ted Underwood.
LIBRA PR25 .U53 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Underwood, Ted, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Periodization.
- English literature.
- English literature--Study and teaching--History.
- English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English literature--Study and teaching.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction : historical contrast and the prestige of literary culture
- Historical unconsciousness in the novel, 1790-1819
- The invention of historical perspective
- The invention of the period survey course
- The disciplinary rationale for periodization, and a forgotten challenge to it (1886-1949)
- Stories of parallel lives and the status anxieties of historicism in the 1990s
- Digital humanities and the future of literary history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804784467
- 0804784469
- OCLC:
- 830683628
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