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Literature as history : essays in honour of Peter Widdowson /
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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.