Why literary periods mattered : historical contrast and the prestige of English studies /
"In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete ""periods."" Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized stru...
Основен автор: | Underwood, Ted, (Author) |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2013.
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Why literary periods mattered. |
Съдържание:
- 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.