Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
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چکیده
I began reading for this review aiming to seize the SEL opportunity, in customary fashion, to refl ect on current trends in the fi eld. I soon found it was easy enough to identify a recurrent theme. More diffi cult was the problem of sorting out whether this was a common feature of the books I was reading or a function of the interest I found myself bringing to them. I decided to adopt the Wordsworthian perspective on this conundrum: the recurrent theme is half created and half perceived. It can be summarized as the theme of the division of knowledge: not only ideas literary and otherwise—individual/society, masculine/feminine, objectivity/subjectivity, abstraction/concretion, arts/sciences, manual/ mental labor, literature/nonliterature, aesthetic/didactic—but also issues of periodization: neoclassic/romantic, short/long eighteenth century, tradition/modernity, as well as the question of what a literary or cultural “revolution” entails. I’m not prepared to claim that problems in the division of knowledge preoccupy eighteenth-century studies these days any more than they did fi ve or ten years ago. Once lodged in the mind, however, this way of formulating inquiry into literary historical change gives unparalleled access to some of the most fundamental concerns of the period fi eld we have in common.
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