Construction and Legitimation in Literary History
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Auteurs : Robert D. Hume [États-Unis]Source :
- The Review of English Studies [ 0034-6551 ] ; 2005-09.
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- Agricultural history, Alfred harbage, Alue judgements, American literature, Annales school, Ballad opera, Broader surveys, Cambridge history, Causal explanation, Causal explanations, Century poetry, Christian history, Covent garden, David hackett fischer, David perkins, Dialectical characterization, Drury lane, Dryden, Eighteenth century, Encyclopedic form, English drama, English literature, English literature essay, English playwrights, Evolutionary history, Fairy tales, Fallacy, False exclusion, General reader, Generic, Genre, Gloomy view, Great deal, High degree, Historical principles, Historical scholarship, Historiography, Hume, Individual works, Intellectual history, John genest, Judgement, Large number, Legitimation, Limited kinds, Literary historian, Literary historians, Literary histories, Literary history, Literary work, Literary works, Little histories, Little sense, London cuckolds, Many ways, Master narrative history, Modern philology, Narrative form, Other essays, Oxford history, Particular works, Paulina kewes, Period characterizations, Periodization, Positivist delusion, Practical problems, Recent decades, Restoration comedy, Restoration theatre, Same evidence, Selectivity, Sentimental comedy, Sequential, Sequential change, Sequential history, Sequential survey, Seventeenth century, Simple characterization, Social changes, Substantial book, Such history, Such patterning, Such works, Technical detail, Theatre journal, Theoretical issues, True believers, Twentieth century, Validation, Vantage point, Various sorts.
Abstract
‘Literary history’ continues to be commonly practised even though it is widely regarded with scepticism or contempt. This article examines approaches and assesses the options open to scholars. ‘Bottom up’ is an exploded positivist delusion, but lacking widely accepted historiographical principles ‘top down’ is not an alternative. Practical problems in attempting to write literary history are (1) defining a practicable aim; (2) justifying the process of selection that must be imposed; (3) determining principles of construction; and (4) establishing the basis on which validity is claimed. What can a literary historian legitimately attempt to do? Documented contextual description and analysis is feasible. ‘Explanation’ of change is best attempted at the level of particular detail over relatively short spans of time. Only within the confines of a very restricted subject can a historian attempt to be comprehensive. Literary history is often far from tidy, rational, or explicable. To pretend that it is these things is to falsify the past and to trivialize our subject.
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