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2015
Abstract Literary history has had a mixed history among the readers and the writers of the European traditions. For William Warburton, an eighteenth-century ecclesiast and critic, literary history was “the most agreeable subject in the world.” However, the early nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine describes literary history as ...
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Abstract Literary history has had a mixed history among the readers and the writers of the European traditions. For William Warburton, an eighteenth-century ecclesiast and critic, literary history was “the most agreeable subject in the world.” However, the early nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine describes literary history as ...
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Literary History after Literary Dominance
Modern Language Quarterly, 2019Abstract The various pronouncements of the nation’s dissolution seem to have been premature. Literary history is still very much within the nation, especially if one considers the realm of the middle- and lowbrow, or indeed the vast swaths of genre fiction. What has changed in literary history is the position of literature itself.
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Abstract This chapter takes the ‘Discourse concerning the original and progress of satire’ that prefaced John Dryden’s translations of Juvenal and Persius (1692) as the starting point for a consideration of the relationship between two kinds of criticism: the vernacular English criticism of the early Enlightenment, and the Latinate ...
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New Literary History, 1970
works, between the creative achievements of different authors, between different pasts, and between the past and the present. These matters of consideration are generally thought of as coming under the head of Literary History. Let me say at once that I'm not at all happy about what commonly comes under that head, or about what's commonly understood by
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works, between the creative achievements of different authors, between different pasts, and between the past and the present. These matters of consideration are generally thought of as coming under the head of Literary History. Let me say at once that I'm not at all happy about what commonly comes under that head, or about what's commonly understood by
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Literary History and Literary Specimens
2010“[T]oo many readers,” laments Samuel Egerton Brydges in the British Bibliographer “require to be taught how to think and to judge! It is not sufficient to give them specimens, and leave them to form their own opinions … Better a thousand times is the plodding task of copying the dullest extracts … These the profound antiquary, the philosophic ...
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Journal of American Studies, 1990
Almost a quarter century ago, Cleanth Brooks told a British audience that during two years in Great Britain, "reading the reviews of books by Americans and on America," he had been "amused and almost as often shocked to see what kind of picture of America emerges.
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Almost a quarter century ago, Cleanth Brooks told a British audience that during two years in Great Britain, "reading the reviews of books by Americans and on America," he had been "amused and almost as often shocked to see what kind of picture of America emerges.
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Literary History as Cultural History
2018This chapter begins with the observation that a number of literary critics in this period express the hope that a new form of ‘cultural history’ would provide the basis for an evaluative assessment of the direction of social change. They look to those trained as critics, not to historians, for such an approach, one that tries to identify the ‘quality ...
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Modern African literary history: nation-and-narration, orality, and diaspora
, 2019A. Quayson
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