| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 189 pages) : illustrations |
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Continuum literary studies series |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Contents |
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 -- 9. The 'Servant Problem', Social Class and Literary Representation in Eighteenth-Century England -- 10. '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 |
| Summary |
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 back over the thirty-five years of Peter Widdowson's career - a career which has coincided with the emergence of, challenges to, and reformulations of critical theory - and ask what the future holds, particularly for the interdisciplinary ways of working which Widdowson pioneered. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the interdisciplinary study of English and History, it seizes the opportunity to take stock of the current field of literary studies and to ask searching questions about its future development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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English |
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Print version record |
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature and history -- Great Britain
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Criticism -- History
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Criticism
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English literature
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Literature and history
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Literature and society
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Widdowson, Peter, honouree.
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Barker, Simon, editor.
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Gill, Jo, 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781441178480 |
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1441178481 |
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9781441174314 |
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1441174311 |
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9781474211482 |
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1474211488 |
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9781441148025 |
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1282466704 |
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9781282466708 |
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9786612466700 |
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6612466707 |
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1441148027 |
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9781441148025 |
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