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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Underwood, Ted (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Temas:
English literature > Periodization.
English literature > Study and teaching > History.
English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Littérature anglaise > Étude et enseignement > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Study and teaching.
English literature > History and criticism.
English literature > Theory, etc.
Englisch
Literatur
Periodisierung
Engelsk litteratur > historia > teori, filosofi.
Litteraturundervisning.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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