The limits of literary historicism
By: edited by Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Tennessee studies in literature -- v.45
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781572338203
Subjects: Criticism; Literature; History and criticism; New Historicism; Theory
Description: The Limits of Literary Historicism is a collection of essays arguing that historicism, which has come to dominate the professional study of literature in recent decades, has become ossified. By drawing attention to the limits of historicism--its blind spots, overreach, and reluctance to acknowledge its commitments--this provocative new book seeks a clearer understanding of what historicism can and cannot teach us about literary narrative.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The enigma of critical distance; or, why historicists need convictions / Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox; title: Pt. 1. The limits of historicism; title: the historicization of literary studies / Jane Gallop; title: The children of New Historicism: literary scholarship, professionalization, and the will to publish / Rebecca Munson and Claude Willan; title: Faithful historicism and philosophical semi-retirement / Amy J. Elias; title: Pt. 2. Engagements with history; title: Fiction as history: Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition as source material / Bruce Plourde; title: Bayard Taylor and the limits of Orientalism / Christoph Irmscher; title: The prehistory of posthistoricism / Jeffrey Insko; title: Pt. 3. Alternatives to history modernism and the aesthetics of cultural studies / R. M. Berry; title: Why modernist claims for autonomy matter / Charles M. Altieri.