Reading the Past
Literature and History
Published on 12. September 2000
Book
Hardback
XII, 200 pages
978-0-333-77122-8 (ISBN)
Description
Questions about how and why we read the past continue to demand the attention of cultural critics. Reading the Past introduces key debates about history, historiography, and historicism which have transformed approaches to the past in departments of History and Literature. It includes influential and provocative theoretical essays as well as lively case studies and readings by literary critics and historians. The emphasis is on providing teachers and students with accessible yet challenging material to stimulate debate.
Reviews / Votes
'Useful overview of key historical debates with helpful summaries.' - Maria Jones, University of WolverhamptonMore details
Series
Edition
2000
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XII, 200 p.
Dimensions
Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 15.6 cm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77122-8 (9780333771228)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2000
Red Globe Press
€51.80
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Person
TAMSIN SPARGO is Reader in Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.
Content
Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction.- Emperor Kennedy Legend: A New Anthropological Debate; L. Kolakowski.- The Watercress Seller; C. Steedman.- From Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison; M. Foucault.- Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin; R. Darnton.- Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison; S. Willis.- At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation; S. Greenblatt.- Facing History, or the Anxiety of Reading. Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' According to Greenblatt and Lyotard; J. Pieters.- Reading Cultural History; C. Belsey.- Theses on the Philosophy of History; W. Benjamin.- Camus' The Plague, or a Monument to Witnessing?; S. Felman.- Why Bother with the Past? Engaging with Some Issues Raised by the 'End of History as we Have Known it'; K. Jenkins.- from The Writing of History; M. de Certeau.- Summaries and Notes.- Glossary.- Suggestions for Further Reading.- Index.