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Use, value, justification: on history and historicism in nineteenth-century French studies
- Abstract:
- The ‘historical turn' has been particularly fruitful and enabling in nineteenth-century French studies, and methodological approaches that might broadly be described as ‘historicist’ remain dominant within the subfield. Yet these approaches inevitably privilege certain types of literary critical thinking over others, and may even obscure some of the ways in which literary texts have, or can be given, meaning. They also tend to posit the audience of work in nineteenth-century French studies as being composed primarily of other specialists. I suggest that ‘taking a break’ from historicism might facilitate new conversations about nineteenth-century French literature, with new interlocutors.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/14787318.2021.2017559
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- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- Dix-Neuf More from this journal
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 3-4
- Pages:
- 329-344
- Publication date:
- 2022-01-18
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1478-7318
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English
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1340293
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2024-10-25
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- Andrew J. Counter
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in anymedium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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