Why literary periods mattered historical contrast and the prestige of English studies - Underwood, Ted (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press, 2013)
Introduction : historical contrast and the prestige of literary culture -- Historical unconsciousness in the novel, 1790-1819 -- The invention of historical perspective -- The invention of the period survey course -- The disciplinary rationale for periodization, and a forgotten challenge to it (1886-1949) -- Stories of parallel lives and the status anxieties of historicism in the 1990s -- Digital humanities and the future of literary history
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index
Keywords: Englisch; Literatur; Periodisierung