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The limits of literary historicism / edited by Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 45.
- Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criticism.
- Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Literature.
- New Historicism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Limits of Literary Historicism is a collection of essays arguing that historicism, which has come to dominate the professional study of literature in recent decades, has become ossified. By drawing attention to the limits of historicism-its blind spots, overreach, and reluctance to acknowledge its commitments-this provocative new book seeks a clearer understanding of what historicism can and cannot teach us about literary narrative. Editors Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox have gathered contributions from leading scholars that challenge the dominance
- Contents:
- Introduction: The enigma of critical distance; or, why historicists need convictions / Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox
- Pt. 1. The limits of historicism
- the historicization of literary studies / Jane Gallop
- The children of New Historicism: literary scholarship, professionalization, and the will to publish / Rebecca Munson and Claude Willan
- Faithful historicism and philosophical semi-retirement / Amy J. Elias
- Pt. 2. Engagements with history
- Fiction as history: Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition as source material / Bruce Plourde
- Bayard Taylor and the limits of Orientalism / Christoph Irmscher
- The prehistory of posthistoricism / Jeffrey Insko
- Pt. 3. Alternatives to history modernism and the aesthetics of cultural studies / R. M. Berry
- Why modernist claims for autonomy matter / Charles M. Altieri.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613512352
- 9781280010705
- 1280010703
- 9781572338319
- 1572338318
- OCLC:
- 781725783
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