...The Romantic age in England formed one of the most celebrated — and heterogeneous — moments in literary history, but it also witnessed the rise of ‘political economy’ as the pre-eminent 19th-century science of society. This book investigates this historical conjunction, and reassesses the idea...

...Bengali Vaishnava traditions were most foundationally re-evaluated by the bhadralok in the process of writing literary histories of Bengali language. These histories, which began to emerge around 1870s and continued well into the twentieth century, are discussed in this chapter, with a focus...

... they looked into the past and engaged in complex and insightful investgations of Roman literary history. Horace Actium Augustan Augustus Caesar Cicero M Tullius Cicero city civil war s continuation continuity debate epistles Epodes military new Octavian origins past period s political...

... literature. But it also suggests that a lack of critical consideration of the poet’s relationship to the work of his Irish contemporaries points to more fundamental limitations in most accounts of Irish literary history in the middle of the twentieth century. In the summer of 1959, Louis MacNeice travelled...

...The introduction situates this work within scholarship and outlines an approach to some larger issues including literature, literary history, canons, periodization, and historical contexts. It then broaches the question of how Pindaric epinician related to its public and offers a preview...

...This chapter identifies the conceptual links between the different chapters in this book. It attempts to help further research along similar lines by presenting in separated paragraphs some of the work that has been done by others. It also provides a literary history of comic form and expression...

...This chapter lays out a theory of modern literary history as a series of linked responses to the modern world-view. Far from designating the concrete reactions that govern any specific and historical human community, the logical qualities of the responses aim to describe the empty slots...

...White liberal race fiction has been an enduringly popular genre in American literary history. It includes widely read and taught works such as Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird along with period bestsellers now sometimes forgotten. Hollywood regularly...

...This chapter considers how, as the role of the translator as writer moves increasingly to the fore, the personal statements of translators are beginning to be viewed as an integral part of literary history. It examines the history of such statements, beginning with Catullus, Cicero, Quintilian...

... Siddhavīraṇāryaru Surasati Vijayanagara Empire Viraktas Śivatattvacintāmaṇi Lakkaṇṇa Daṇḍēśa Śrīśailam poetics bhakti poetry Ragaḷegaḷu Hampeya Harihara Kannada literary history hagiographies the ragaḷegaḷu played a pivotal role in the development of devotional literature...

... collected in this volume attest to the irreducibility of the century’s turn, which can be read as an era of historical complexity rather than as a period shaped by a decisive teleological march into new intellectual territory. Exploring the permeable boundaries and elastic categories of a literary history...

...Arguing that the changing and more consolidated literary politics of the century’s turn helped make possible the canon wars of the twentieth century, this paper investigates the history of literary histories. Twentieth-century constructs of the field overlook an awareness that late-nineteenth...

...This chapter analyzes the gradual emphasis in India on literary study as a branch of historical analysis in its relation to the integration of British cultural hegemony. With the passing of the old rhetorical traditions, the study of literary genres gradually became oriented in literary history...

...-century American literary history as it has been constructed in the twentieth century; orphans have played major roles in a dominant white male tradition in criticism, but also in gendered and ethnic challenges to that tradition. Previous critical discussions of orphans typically focus on children’s...

...This introductory chapter discusses the concept of the sinister street, which was part of the literary imagination of the twentieth century, and provoked reflections on the writing of literary history. The discussion examines the modernists's visions of the street, which were developed fully...

... of The Freewoman: A Humanist Weekly and the possible changes made to the Poetry magazine. Finally, the chapter studies the avant-garde journal Camera Work, the roles of women in modernist literary history and the modernist decades that followed 1912. class social...

...This chapter examines how Catholics involved in literary work reimagined their place in the cultural and intellectual landscape, a reimagining forged by the twentieth-century's cataclysms and the ongoing fear of nuclear annihilation. It begins with an overview of literary history as intellectual...