Eighteenth-century Literary History: An MLQ ReaderMarshall Brown Duke University Press, 1999 - 279 pages Viewed as a crucible of modernity, the eighteenth century has become a special focus of Modern Language Quarterly, a journal that has led the revival of literary history as a subject for empirical study and theoretical reflection. The essays in this volume, which cover a broad cross-section of eighteenth-century literary history, represent the best studies of this period recently published in MLQ. While examining different parts of the century, as well as different aspects and countries, contributors explore the intersection of literary studies with history, philosophy, psychology, and the visual arts. They discuss a creative range of topics, including feminism, nationalism, domestic ideology, the classical novel-drama-lyric poetry triad, and both aesthetic and philosophical writings. This span of subjects and approaches extends the focus of Eighteenth-Century Literary History beyond its period to project a spirit of inquiry onto literary history in general. Contributors. Nancy Armstrong, Marshall Brown, Sanford Budick, Catherine Gallagher, Thomas M. Kavanagh, Jon Klancher, Jill Kowalik, Jonathan Brody Kramnick, Christie McDonald, Jerome McGann, Ruth Perry, Michael B. Prince, Leonard Tennenhouse |
Table des matières
Gender Property and the Rise of the Novel | 27 |
Literary History | 43 |
Godwin and the Republican Romance | 68 |
Feminine Identity Formation in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre | 87 |
Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho | 114 |
Reading the Moment and the Moment of Reading | 136 |
Defamiliarizing the Family or Writing Family History | 159 |
Reconfiguring Family Relations | 172 |
The EighteenthCentury Beauty Contest | 204 |
Contributors | 269 |
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