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This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late e...

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Main Author: London, April (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
British literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern.
Electronic books.
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Summary:This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 225 pages)
ISBN:9780230283336
DOI:10.1057/9780230283336