The limits of literary historicism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Haddox, Thomas F. (Thomas Fredrick), Dunn, Allen
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Tennessee studies in literature ; v.45.
Subjects:	New Historicism. Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The enigma of critical distance; or, why historicists need convictions / Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox
Pt. 1. The limits of historicism
the historicization of literary studies / Jane Gallop
The children of New Historicism: literary scholarship, professionalization, and the will to publish / Rebecca Munson and Claude Willan
Faithful historicism and philosophical semi-retirement / Amy J. Elias
Pt. 2. Engagements with history
Fiction as history: Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition as source material / Bruce Plourde
Bayard Taylor and the limits of Orientalism / Christoph Irmscher
The prehistory of posthistoricism / Jeffrey Insko
Pt. 3. Alternatives to history modernism and the aesthetics of cultural studies / R. M. Berry
Why modernist claims for autonomy matter / Charles M. Altieri.