...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study about the late medieval habits of thought that link reading with performance, focusing on Additional 37049. It suggests that Additional 37049 illuminates a broad expanse of late medieval literary history, for it contains monastic reading...

...This chapter, which examines the project of literary history as a technical practice that is part of the broader poetics of contemporary technē, looks at the difference between the technical ethos of past literary history and that of the so-called new literary history. It submits...

... critical theory Fredric Jameson Anthropocene ideology criticism Earth system literary history cliimate change As a work of metacommentary, this study has foregrounded the persistent failure of historical criticism to recognize the Earth’s climate as a referent. This critical failure is evidence...

... Francis Payne William Morton Boccaccio Giovanni Chaucer Geoffrey Hart James Morgan Hunt Theodore literary history Renker Elizabeth Taine Hippolyte Anderson Melvin B antiquarian Dale Thomas genre Palmer D J period specialization Shakespeare William Kramnick Jonathan Brody memorization...

... parvenu Honoré de Balzac Stendhal Jules Vallès Édouard Louis cultural capital literary history In Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995), Kristin Ross analyzes “The striking prevalence of the ideologeme of cleanliness” in post–World War...

...This chapter reads Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s infamously bad rhymes and her blank verse as related stylistic responses to her study of Henry Hallam’s Introduction to the Literature of Europe (1837–39), the first large-scale work of general literary history in English. Examining Barrett Browning’s...

... Schlegel August Stones of Venice The Ruskin terza rima Wimsatt William Crane Walter Johnson Samuel Arabian Nights Boccaccio Canterbury Tales Chaucer Chaucer Geoffrey Decameron Boccaccio Earthly Paradise The Morris genetic formalism Milton John Paradise Lost Milton literary history Middle...

... free verse Prins Yopie “Night and Sleep” Patmore “To the Unknown Eros” Patmore Daniel Samuel “Defence of Rhyme The” Daniel In Memoriam Tennyson theory of rhyme Armstrong Isobel England Greece literary history Puttenham George blank verse Europe Horace Pindar Anacreon canzone Cowley...

...It is a commonplace in literary history to say that the moderns of today will quickly become the ancients of tomorrow. Such is time's work. But Chénier's remark reminds us of perhaps a more interesting, and inverse, truth: today's “Ancients” (that is, defenders of the ancients) may tomorrow seem...

...This section explores certain “lights, shadows, eclipses” of Spain’s literary history through a number of texts and authors of the last four centuries. It gives some coherence to the previous chapters while offering new venues of study through a number of questions that remain open for discussion...

... deeply into Spanish literary history in order to arrive at a better understanding of his poetic tradition. The real strength of the American Lorca is its apocryphal character, its lack of respect for the original context, not its scrupulously accurate treatment of the original text. Creeley Robert deep...

...This book challenges scholars of history, literary history, and translation/interpreting studies to rethink how people, ideas, and texts circulated in the medieval European and Mediterranean world. Focusing on ‘fixers’ (linguistic agents), it takes a comprehensive look at translation that includes...

... of the contemporary humanities, history fundamentally transcodes creation as destruction, and vice versa. Finally, it examines the unique future of literature in the information age as well as the future of “literary history” and how it can contribute to the future literary. aesthetic ideology aesthetic legitimation...

... from early studies of world literature. Rhyme’s connection with literary modernity and with a repertoire of medievalist, Italophilic, and orientalist myths about love, loss, and poetic longing made it a sensitive historiographic instrument; Victorian poets used rhyme to theorize both literary history...

...The introduction discusses the Victorian fascination with the origins of poetic forms, arguing that literary history was continuous with literary theory in the nineteenth century. Rhyme was connected with historiographical stories about the international development of literature; those stories...

... criticism connects Romantic literary historiography and Victorian poetry and thereby establishes the theoretical background for many of the poetic innovations that follow. Hallam used the genetic narratives of “general” or “world” literary history (especially the Arabist theory from Sismondi’s Historical...

... rhymes of “Tears, Idle Tears” (1847) and In Memoriam (1850) represent a more mature if less transparently historical development of affective form. By turning general literary history and its genetic thinking into an interpretive and creative method, Hallam and Tennyson devise a Victorian historiographic...

... ideas, events, or literary history. Rather, the author takes an oblique approach: to view this century in five words that are to represent what the mass of people in Europe and the Americas believed about their everyday experience—their place in culture, their relationship to the past and present...

..., the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated literary history and the questions that attend it—which edition represents the real Chesnut? To what genre does this text belong?—may explain why the document largely has, until now, been overlooked...