Literature as History Essays in Honour of Peter Widdowson

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Buy New

Print on Demand: 2-4 Weeks. This item cannot be cancelled or returned.

$132.99
eBook

Available Instantly

Online: 180 Days

Downloadable: 180 Days

$34.19

Summary

New essays by a range of leading theorists on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history.

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Notes on Contributors	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Essays in Criticism
The Poverty of (New) Historicism	p. 7
Re-Reading English, Re-Reading Modernism	p. 18
'I would have her whipped': David Copperfield in its Historical Moment	p. 28
On Hardy's Realism, Again	p. 39
Tragedy and Revolution	p. 53
'The Weight of History': Poets and Artists in World War Two	p. 66
The Plains of War: Byron, Turner and the Bodies of Waterloo	p. 80
'Giving Them Back Their History': Peter Widdowson and Literature	p. 95
The 'Servant Problem', Social Class and Literary Representation in Eighteenth-Century England	p. 106
'Sway between a Dance and a Fight': Black Religions in Toni Morrison's Paradise	p. 118
Women, War and the University: Rosamond Lehmann's Dusty Answer	p. 133
Mythological Presents: Modernity, Edward Thomas and the Poetics of Experience	p. 145
Another 'Last Signal'	p. 161
Personalia
Biographical Sketches of Peter Widdowson	p. 165
Index	p. 185
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.