historical contrast and the prestige of English studies /
Ted Underwood
viii, 199 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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English literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc