Literature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history. The unifying theme is the interrelationship between literary / cultural production and its historical moment. The essays in the collection are astute and exciting in terms of their engagement with ever-changing developments in critical and theoretical practice while retaining an invaluable focus on familiar and engaging texts and authors. The contributors offer a reappraisal of the nature of literary studies today, looking…mehr
Literature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history. The unifying theme is the interrelationship between literary / cultural production and its historical moment. The essays in the collection are astute and exciting in terms of their engagement with ever-changing developments in critical and theoretical practice while retaining an invaluable focus on familiar and engaging texts and authors. The contributors offer a reappraisal of the nature of literary studies today, looking back over the thirty-five years of Peter Widdowson's career - a career which has coincided with the emergence of, challenges to, and reformulations of critical theory - and ask what the future holds, particularly for the interdisciplinary ways of working which Widdowson pioneered. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the interdisciplinary study of English and History, it seizes the opportunity to take stock of the current field of literary studies and to ask searching questions about its future development.
Simon Barker is Professor of English Literature in the Department of Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Jo Gill is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Exeter, UK.
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Introduction by Simon Barker and Jo Gill List of Contributors 1. The Poverty of (New) Historicism Catherine Belsey (University of Wales Swansea UK) 2. Re-reading English Re-reading Modernism Helen Carr (Goldsmiths College University of London UK) 3. 'I would have her whipped': David Copperfield in its historical moment Simon Dentith (University of Reading UK) 4. Hardy's Realism and Hardy-country Tourism Tim Dolin (Curtis University of Technology Australia) 5. Tragedy and Revolution Terry Eagleton (National University of Ireland Ireland; University of Notre Dame; USA; University of Lancaster UK) 6. 'The Weight of History': Poets and Artists in WWII John Lucas (Nottingham Trent University UK; Shoestring Press) 7. The Plains of War: Byron Turner and the Bodies of Waterloo Philip W. Martin (De Montfort University UK) 8. "Giving Them Back Their History": Peter Widdowson and Literature Martin Randall (University of Gloucestershire UK) 9. The 'Servant Problem' Social Class and Literary Representation in Eighteenth-Century England R.C.Richardson (University of Winchester UK) 10. 'Sway Between a Dance and a Fight': Black Religions in Toni Morrison's Paradise Shelley Saguaro (Univesity of Gloucestershire UK) 11. Women War and the University: Rosamond Lehmann's Dusty Answer Judy Simons (De Montfort University UK) 12.Mythological Presents: Modernity Edward Thomas and the Poetice of Experience Stan Smith (Nottingham Trent University UK) 13. Personalia: sketches of Peter Widdowson Neville Shrimpton; Mary Shakeshaft; Paul Stigant; Mike Walkers; Mary De Jong Obuchowski; Peter Obuchowski; Peter Brooker; Stuart Laing; Victoria Bazin; U.A. Fanthorpe and Rosie Bailey; James Green; Manzu Islam; Emily Wroe; Neil A. Wynn; Charlotte Beyer; Sandra Courtman; Peter Childs; Hilary Hinds; Debby Thacker; John Hughes. Index
Introduction by Simon Barker and Jo Gill List of Contributors 1. The Poverty of (New) Historicism Catherine Belsey (University of Wales Swansea UK) 2. Re-reading English Re-reading Modernism Helen Carr (Goldsmiths College University of London UK) 3. 'I would have her whipped': David Copperfield in its historical moment Simon Dentith (University of Reading UK) 4. Hardy's Realism and Hardy-country Tourism Tim Dolin (Curtis University of Technology Australia) 5. Tragedy and Revolution Terry Eagleton (National University of Ireland Ireland; University of Notre Dame; USA; University of Lancaster UK) 6. 'The Weight of History': Poets and Artists in WWII John Lucas (Nottingham Trent University UK; Shoestring Press) 7. The Plains of War: Byron Turner and the Bodies of Waterloo Philip W. Martin (De Montfort University UK) 8. "Giving Them Back Their History": Peter Widdowson and Literature Martin Randall (University of Gloucestershire UK) 9. The 'Servant Problem' Social Class and Literary Representation in Eighteenth-Century England R.C.Richardson (University of Winchester UK) 10. 'Sway Between a Dance and a Fight': Black Religions in Toni Morrison's Paradise Shelley Saguaro (Univesity of Gloucestershire UK) 11. Women War and the University: Rosamond Lehmann's Dusty Answer Judy Simons (De Montfort University UK) 12.Mythological Presents: Modernity Edward Thomas and the Poetice of Experience Stan Smith (Nottingham Trent University UK) 13. Personalia: sketches of Peter Widdowson Neville Shrimpton; Mary Shakeshaft; Paul Stigant; Mike Walkers; Mary De Jong Obuchowski; Peter Obuchowski; Peter Brooker; Stuart Laing; Victoria Bazin; U.A. Fanthorpe and Rosie Bailey; James Green; Manzu Islam; Emily Wroe; Neil A. Wynn; Charlotte Beyer; Sandra Courtman; Peter Childs; Hilary Hinds; Debby Thacker; John Hughes. Index
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