Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Mack moves between close examinations of li

In this collection, Marshall Brown has gathered essays by twenty leading literary scholars and critics to appraise the current state of literary history. Repres

Fran�ois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in societyÕs Òregimes of historicityÓ or its way of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired

Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' def