In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the current state of literary history. Representing a range of disciplinary specialties and approaches, these essays illustrate and debate the issues that confront scholars working on the literary past and its relation to the present. Concerned with both the theory and practice of literary history, these provocative and sometimes combative pieces examine the writing of literary history, the nature of our interest in tradition, and the ways that literary works act in history....
In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the current state of literary histo...
Preromanticism seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in the foreshadowing of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift. Brown analyses several of the period's major figures - Gray, Collins, Young, Cowper, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Beaumarchais, Schiller, and Stern, touching on French and German as well as British literature. This broadly comparative juxtaposition of philosophical and literary works often yields startling and compelling insights.
Preromanticism seeks the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in the foreshadowing of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries a...
Viewed as a crucible of modernity, the eighteenth century has become a special focus of "Modern Language Quarterly" ("MLQ"), a journal that has led the revival of literary history as a subject for empirical study and theoretical reflection. This book contains essays that represent the best studies of this period published in "MLQ".
Viewed as a crucible of modernity, the eighteenth century has become a special focus of "Modern Language Quarterly" ("MLQ"), a journal that has led th...
