Interventionist literary histories: Nostalgic, pragmatic, or utopian?

Modern Language Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 401-417

  Hutcheon, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054042466     PISSN: 00267929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00267929-59-4-401     Document Type: Review

References (67)

1. Ernst Behler, "Problems of Origin in Modern Literary History," in Theoretical Issues in Literary History, ed. David Perkins (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991), 11-2.
2. David Perkins, Is Literary History Possible? (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), 1-4, 86;
3. Hans Robert Jauss, "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory," in Toward an Aesthetic of Reception, trans. Timothy Bahti (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982), 7-8.
4. David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985], 393.
5. Gregory S. Jay, American Literature and the Culture Wars [Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1977], 177.
6. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 2d ed. (London: Verso, 1991);
7. Timothy Brennan, "The National Longing for Form," in Nation and Narration, ed. Homi K. Bhabha (London: Routledge, 1990), 49;
8. Herbert Lindenberger, Opera: The Extravagant Art (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984), 257;
9. Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Knopf, 1993), 111-32;
10. Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, "Otherhood Issues: Post-National Operatic Narratives," Narrative 3 (1995): 1-17.
11. George Steiner (Language and Silence: Essays, 1958-1966 [Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969], 79).
12. Michael Sprinker, Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism [London: Verso, 1987], 3.
13. Bhabha, "Editor's Introduction: Minority Maneuvers and Unsettled Negotiations," Critical Inquiry 23 (1997) : 436.
14. Etienne Balibar"Ambiguous Universality," differences 7 (1995): esp. 53-5.
15. John Frow(Marxism and Literary History [Oxford: Blackwell, 1986], 122).
16. Frederick Buell, National Culture and the New Global System (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 162-3
17. Marilyn L. Williamson, "Toward a Feminist Literary History," Signs 10 (1984): 137-8;
18. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, "Tradition and the Female Talent," in Literary History: Theory and Practice, ed. Herbert L. Sussman, Proceedings of the Northeastern University Center for Literary Studies, 2 (Boston: Northeastern University, 1984), 20-1;
19. Donna Landry, "Figures of the Feminine: An Amazonian Revolution in Feminist Literary History?" in The Uses of Literary History, ed. Marshall Brown (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995), 107.
20. R. Radhakrishnan, "Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity," in Nationalisms and Sexualities, ed. Andrew Parker et al. (New York: Routledge, 1992), 79;
21. Marco A. Portales, "Literary History, a 'Usable Past,' and Space," Melus 11 (1984): 97.
22. White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973);
23. White, Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978).
24. Dominick LaCapra, History and Criticism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985).
25. Janet Todd, Feminist Literary History: A Defence (Cambridge: Polity, 1988), 96.
26. Henry Louis Gates Jr. ("Beyond the Culture Wars: Identities in Dialogue," Profession 93 [1993]: 8).
27. Marshall Brown, (Preromanticism [Stanford, Calif,: Stanford University Press, 1991], 2, 3, 6).
28. René Wellek, Concepts of Criticism, ed. Stephen G. Nichols Jr. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1963), 333.
29. David Perkins, "Introduction: The State of the Discussion," in Perkins, Theoretical Issues, 4.
30. Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie, eds., An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English [Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992], 10.
31. Rey Chow, Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 17.
32. Carl F. Klinck, gen. ed., Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English, 2d ed., 4 vols. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976-90).
33. Denis Hollier, ed., A New History of French Literature (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989).
34. Djelal Kadir, Linda Hutcheon, and Mario J. Valdés, "Collaborative Historiography: A Comparative Literary History of Latin America," American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper, 1996.
35. Linda Hutcheon and Mario J. Valdés, "Rethinking Literary History - Comparatively," American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper, 1995.
36. Emory Elliott, gen. ed., Columbia Literary History ofthe United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988);
37. Sacvan Bercovitch, gen. ed., Cambridge History of American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994-).
38. Elliott ("The Politics of Literary History," American Literature 59 [1987] : 269).
39. Bercovitch (preface to Reconstructing American Literary History, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986], viii).
40. James Clifford ("On Orientalism," in The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art [Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988], 273, 274).
41. Barbara Christian, "The Race for Theory," Feminist Studies 14 (1988): 67-79, esp. 71-2.
42. Berlant, The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 20;
43. Williams, "The Culture of Nations," in Towards 2000 (London: Hogarth, 1983), 180.
44. Edward Hallett Carr, (Nationalism and After [London: Macmillan, 1945], 39).
45. Jean Franco ("The Nation as Imagined Community," in The New Historicism, ed. H. Aram Veeser [New York: Routledge, 1989], 208).
46. Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993), 5;
47. Valéry, "On History" (1931), in History and Politics, trans. Denise Folliot and Jackson Mathews, vol. 10 of The Collated Works of Paul Valéry, ed. Jackson Mathews (New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1962), 114.
48. Charles Taylor ("The Politics of Recognition," in Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, ed. Amy Gutmann [Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994], 36).
49. E. J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 91.
50. Renan, "What Is a Nation?" (1882), in Bhabha, Nation and Narration, 13, 19.
51. Rob Nixon, "Of Balkans and Bantustans: Ethnic Cleansing and the Crisis in National Legitimation," in Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives, ed. Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, and Ella Shohat (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 85.
52. Svetlana Boym, "From the Russian Soul to Post-Communist Nostalgia," Repesentations 49 (1995): 134.
53. Gertrude Himmelfarb, The New History and the Old (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987), 130.
54. Gates, "'Ethnic and Minority' Studies," in Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, ed. Joseph Gibaldi, 2d ed. (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1992), 295-6.
55. Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken, 1969), 261.
56. Zygmund Bauman, "Soil, Blood, and Identity," Sociological Review 40 (1992): 693.
57. Diana Fuss, Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature, and Difference (New York: Routledge, 1989).
58. Kamboureli, "Canadian Ethnic Anthologies: Representations of Ethnicity," Ariel 25, no. 4 (1994): 28;
59. Gilroy, "There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack": The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 60.
60. Ezell, Writing Women's Literary History (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 7, 61.
61. Lawrence Buell, "Literary History without Sexism? Feminist Studies and Canonical Reconception," American Literature 59 [1987]: 103,
62. Annette Kolodny, "The Integrity of Memory: Creating a New Literary History of the United States," American Literature 57 [1985]: 291-307.
63. Frank Davey, Canadian Literary Power (Edmonton, Alta.: Newest, 1994), 76.
64. Gates, "The Signifying Monkey," in Black Literature and Literary Theory, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: Methuen, 1984), 315;
65. Chapman, Southern African Literatures (London: Longman, 1996).
66. Brooker, New York Fictions: Modernity, Postmodernism, the New Modern (New York: Longman, 1995), 133.
67. Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), 7.