Why literary periods mattered : historical contrast and the prestige of English studies /
Underwood, Ted,author.
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.
English literature
English literature
English literature