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From
History to Literary History: An Eighteenth-Century
Phenomenon and Its Aftermath |
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MIHAELA IRIMIA
University of Bucharest
Abstract
Like any other
cultural institution, literature has a history, as does
history itself. Part of the discourse of modernity,
disciplinary separation is a reality which seems so
‘natural’ that we have simply taken it for granted. Yet,
interdisciplinary studies, in abundance in recent years,
testify to the contrary. And why are we turning back to
pre-disciplinary separation? The short answer could be: we
have only been used to disciplines some two hundred odd
years, our long memory operates in an interdisciplinary
manner. This paper looks at some topoi of literary
specificity as it halts to consider a few moments in the
sedimentation of literature and literary history.
Keywords:
Culture, cultural institution, literature, literary history,
modernity, disciplines, disciplinary separation,
Interdisciplinary Studies |
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| Research for Mihaela Irimia's article
“From History to Literary History: An Eighteenth-Century
Phenomenon and Its Aftermath”, published in American,
British and Canadian Studies, the Journal of the
Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, no. 12, Sibiu, June
2009, pp. 14-26 (ISSN 1841-1487) has been partially
supported by UEFISCSU grant no. 871/2009[code 1980] for a
research project titled The Cultural Institution of
Literature from Early to Late Modernity in British Culture. |
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