{"product_id":"literary-historicity-9780804773676","title":"Literary Historicity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Historicity\u003c\/i\u003e explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ruth Mack's \u003ci\u003eLiterary Historicity\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for those engaged in conversations about the boundaries of eighteenth-century history and literature. Tackling the knotty relations among representation, experience, and form, Mack deftly responds to and moves beyond poststructuralist and constructivist approaches. In her engaging readings of works by Fielding, Gibbon, Johnson, Lennox, Walpole, and others, she argues convincingly that eighteenth-century literary texts, broadly defined, are the most fruitful places to look to chart innovations in Enlightenment historiography. This provocative book offers a compelling call—to literary critics and historians alike—to shift the terrain on which we investigate the histories of history.\" -- Devoney Looser * University of Missouri-Columbia *\u003cbr\u003e\"This intelligent brief study follows its genuinely original concerns into the densest and least expected contexts of comparison and emerges with an ingenious critical perspective. Its central interest in consciousness as a formative notion of historical selfhood places the study in potential dialogue with contemporary useful discussions of consciousness and cognition.\" -- Timothy Erwin * \u003ci\u003eScriblerian\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLiterary Historicity\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious study that offers stunningly original treatments of the changing understandings of consciousness and representation in eighteenth-century Britain. Its general historical and theoretical contributions have implications that should resonate far beyond its titular chronological and geographical loci.\" -- Martine Watson Brownley * Emory University *\u003cbr\u003e\"... overall the book offers 18th-century specialists and historians of the novel much to ponder.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The arrangement of the volume is skillful and balanced. The approach combines particularity and generality, theorization with close attention to a text, and is one of selective instantiation... This is a properly ambitious, well-planned, and potentially important book.\" -- Philip Smallwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  Introduction:  READING AND EXPERIENCING THE PAST\t1  Chapter One:  JOHNSON AND HISTORICAL AUTHORSHIP \t46  Chapter Two:  FIELDING AND HISTORICAL CHARACTER \t82  Chapter Three:  LENNOX AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS \t122  Chapter Four:  WALPOLE, STERNE AND HISTORICAL OBJECTS\t151  Chapter Five:  WARBURTON, GIBBON AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT\t190  Afterword\t233  Bibliography\t304","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405592207703,"sku":"9780804773676","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804773676.jpg?v=1730492941","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literary-historicity-9780804773676","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}