...Eric Hayot Abstract The various pronouncements of the nation’s dissolution seem to have been premature. Literary history is still very much within the nation, especially if one considers the realm of the middle- and lowbrow, or indeed the vast swaths of genre fiction. What has changed in literary...

...Jenijoy La Belle Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 THEODORE ROETHKE’S “THE LOST SON” FROM ARCHETYPES TO LITERARY HISTORY By JENIJOY LA BELLE Sooner or later in almost every lengthy study of Theodore...

... ESSAYS IN RENAISSANCE LITERARY HISTORY' By MICHAELMURRIN In their recent books John Steadman and Rosalie Colie have both tried to write a limited kind of literary history, the type that stresses criticism in the period. Neither succeeds...

... in the present work. BLAKELEE SPAHR University of California, Berkeley A Literary History of the Popular Ballad. By DAVIDC. FOWLER.Durham: Duke University Press, 1968. 352 pp. $10.75. David Fowler’s Literary History of the Popular Ballad...

... University Literary History of the United States. Edited by ROBERTE. SPILLERand others. New York: Macmillan Company, 1948. I, xx + 636; 11, vi + 639-1422; 111, xxii + 817. Three volumes boxed, $20.00. The word literature is an omnigatherum word that has not lost its original...

...Juliet Shields Sentimental Memorials: Women and the Novel in Literary History . By Sodeman Melissa . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2015 . x + 186 pp. Copyright © 2016 by University of Washington 2016 “Do we still need studies devoted exclusively to women writers...

...Katherine Bode Abstract The approaches to data-rich literary history that dominate academic and public debate—Franco Moretti’s “distant reading” and Matthew Jockers’s “macroanalysis”—model literary systems in limited, abstract, and often ahistorical ways. This problem arises from neglect...

... the attack on “rationalizing divines” in the Dunciad and the fondness shared by Pope and Fielding for the “Cibberian forehead.” W. I(. WIMSATT,JR. Yale University Endymion in England: The Literary History of a Greek Myth. By EDWALDs. LEC0nn-E. New York...

... disparagement or ridicule. LYDIABAER Swarthwore CollegP Linguistics and Literary History : Essays in Sfylistics. By LEO SPITZER.Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1948. Pp. iv + 236. $3.75. The title that Professor Spitzer...

...Zsolt Komáromy Abstract The conversational style of William Cowper’s poetry owes much to the influence of Charles Churchill. Despite this connection, the two poets occupy different niches in literary history: Churchill is remembered as a practitioner of the declining tradition of satirical poetry...

..., fruitful marriage of critical methodologies and fields. It encompasses literary and cultural history, diplomatic history, international relations, gender studies, and other approaches. Its comparatist focus has much to teach specialists in English literature, reminding us, to choose one among numerous...

...Simon Gikandi The creation of a totality for the literature of others so that they can become comprehensible to us continues to haunt literary histories across the world. National literature may even be considered, for good or for bad, the precondition of both comparative and world literature...

...Susan Stanford Friedman Abstract Can literary history be done without the conventional reliance on linear periodization? What might a literary history of modernism look like without the usual periodization of roughly 1890–1940? This essay reviews the arguments for and against periodization...

...Peter Kalliney Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Literary History after the Nation?” begins with a simple question: Now that many scholars are pressuring...

... to those of the mid-eighteenth century. In thus arguing for Waverley as a rumination on the history of the novel “sixty years since”—as a literary-historical as well as historical novel—the essay considers Scott's debt to the most popular of these midcentury fictions, the object narrative, by reading...

... Quarterly, Contemporary Literature , and Pedagogy . A New Literary History of America . Edited by Marcus Greil Sollors Werner . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2009 . xxvii + 1,095 pp. © 2011 by University of Washington 2011 Reviews A New...

...Peter Carafiol Peter Carafiol is professor of English and American literature at Portland State University. He is author of Transcendent Reason: James Marsh and the Forms of Romantic Thought (1982) and The American Ideal: Literary History as a Worldly Activity (1991). His current...

... of Washington 2012 Realism, Romance, and the Problem of African Literary History Simon Gikandi In postcoloniality, every metropolitan de nition is dislodged. The general mode for the postcolonial is citation, reinscription, rerouting the historical. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak...

...Kevin Pask Literary history has largely ignored its own origins in the late Renaissance, and we still lack a full account of how literary history, based in the European vernacular literatures, emerged during the early modern period. Pask attempts to redress this lack by arguing, primarily through...

...Shuang Shen Hong Kong literary history presents a polemical case study for a contemporary rethinking of national literary history: Is it a local history or a global history? How should we describe the complex connections between the city’s sinophone literature and the literatures of mainland China...