'New Wine in Old Bottles: The "New Historicism" and the Eighteenth Century'

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Downie, Alan (J. A.). 2001. 'New Wine in Old Bottles: The "New Historicism" and the Eighteenth Century'. In: Kevin Cope and Rudiger Ahrens, eds. Talking Forward, Talking Back: Critical Dialogues with the Enlightenment (AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-Century). AMS Press, pp. 265-279. ISBN 978-0404635350 [Book Section]

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Crirical theory is always retrospective when applied to works from earlier periods. This text takes a new approach to the challenge of literary theory with respect to eighteenth-century studies. It looks at the way that literature of the period dealt with the question of the time of criticism.

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