Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: June 22, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

This year's work in eighteenth-century studies can be loosely arranged along an axis between "ancients" and "moderns," between those who would return to the intrinsic nature of earlier texts and contexts, and those who would use modern theories to bring the texts and contexts of the past to bear upon current concerns. Overlapping with this divide between ancients and moderns, but not coextensive with it, there has emerged another division in eighteenth-century scholarship between those who would claim a special priority for literature, and the received traditions for ...

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