TY - BOOK ID - 78139042 TI - Literature as history : essays in honour of Peter Widdowson AU - Widdowson, Peter AU - Barker, Simon AU - Gill, Jo PY - 2010 SN - 1474211488 1282466704 9786612466700 1441178481 9781441178480 9781441174314 1441174311 9780826433855 0826433855 9781474211482 9781441148025 9781282466708 6612466707 1441148027 9781441148025 PB - London New York Continuum DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Literature and history KW - Criticism KW - Literature and society KW - Literature KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literary criticism KW - Rhetoric KW - Aesthetics KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - Technique KW - Evaluation KW - History in literature KW - 820 <09> KW - 820.09 KW - 82:93 KW - 82:93 Literatuur en geschiedenis KW - Literatuur en geschiedenis KW - 820.09 Engelse literatuur: literaire kritiek KW - Engelse literatuur: literaire kritiek KW - 820 <09> Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... KW - History and literature KW - History and poetry KW - Poetry and history KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van .. KW - Widdowson, Peter. KW - History in literature. KW - Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van . KW - Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139042 AB - Literature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history. The unifying theme is the interrelationship between literary / cultural production and its historical moment. The essays in the collection are astute and exciting in terms of their engagement with ever-changing developments in critical and theoretical practice while retaining an invaluable focus on familiar and engaging texts and authors. The contributors offer a reappraisal of the nature of literary studies today, looking back over the thirty-five years of Peter Widdowson's career - a career which has coincided with the emergence of, challenges to, and reformulations of critical theory - and ask what the future holds, particularly for the interdisciplinary ways of working which Widdowson pioneered. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the interdisciplinary study of English and History, it seizes the opportunity to take stock of the current field of literary studies and to ask searching questions about its future development. ER -