Why Literary Periods Mattered : Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies

Ted Underwood

ISBN 10: 0804795266 / ISBN 13: 9780804795265

Verlag: Stanford University Press Jan 2015, 2015

Beschreibung

Neuware - Ted Underwood is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science, and Political Economy, 1760¿1860 and blogs about digital approaches to literary history at .

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780804795265

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Why Literary Periods Mattered : Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies
• Verlag: Stanford University Press Jan 2015
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0804795266
• ISBN-13: 9780804795265
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 228B x 151 H x 32 T Millimeter Breite: 228 mm, Höhe: 151 mm, Tiefe: 32 mm
• Gewicht: 342 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

This book explains how period survey courses became central to literary study in the nineteenth century, why they remained central in the twentieth, and why, in the digital age, they may now be giving ground to alternate models of literary history.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ted Underwood is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science, and Political Economy, 1760–1860 and blogs about digital approaches to literary history at The Stone and the Shell.