Literature as History Essays in Honour of Peter Widdowson

by Barker, Simon; Gill, Jo

• ISBN13: 9780826433855
• ISBN10: 0826433855
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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

Author Biography

Simon Barker is Professor of English Literature in the Department of Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Jo Gill is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Exeter, UK.

Table of Contents

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
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