Format:
Online-Ressource (206 p)
ISBN:
9781441174314
Content:
Literature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history. The unifying theme is the interrelationship between literary / cultural production and its historical moment. The essays in the collection are astute and exciting in terms of their engagement with ever-changing developments in critical and theoretical practice while retaining an invaluable focus on familiar and engaging texts and authors. The contributors offer a reappraisal of the nature of literary studies today, looking
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Essays in Criticism; 1. The Poverty of (New) Historicism; 2. Re-Reading English, Re-Reading Modernism; 3. 'I would have her whipped': David Copperfield in its Historical Moment; 4. On Hardy's Realism, Again; 5. Tragedy and Revolution; 6. 'The Weight of History': Poets and Artists in World War Two; 7. The Plains of War: Byron, Turner and the Bodies of Waterloo; 8. 'Giving Them Back Their History': Peter Widdowson and Literature
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9. The 'Servant Problem', Social Class and Literary Representation in Eighteenth-Century England10. 'Sway between a Dance and a Fight': Black Religions in Toni Morrison's Paradise; 11. Women, War and the University: Rosamond Lehmann's Dusty Answer; 12. Mythological Presents: Modernity, Edward Thomas and the Poetics of Experience; Another 'Last Signal'; Part II: Personalia; Biographical Sketches of Peter Widdowson; Neville Shrimpton; Mary Shakeshaft; Paul Stigant; Mike Walters; Mary DeJong Obuchowski; Peter Obuchowski; Peter Brooker; Stuart Laing; Victoria Bazin; John Hughes; Hilary Hinds
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Sandra CourtmanEmily Wroe; James Green; Neil A. Wynn; Charlotte Beyer; Peter Childs; Debby Thacker; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441178480
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441174314
Additional Edition:
Print version Literature as History : Essays in Honour of Peter Widdowson
Language:
English
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