![]() ![]() ![]() Narratives of national and religious identity and freedom of individual liberties of the history of education and scholarship of reading or the history of the book of the very possibility of persuasive historical consciousness itself: each of these narratives (and more) is motivated by positing a powerful break around 1500. The deepest periodic division in English literary history has been between the Medieval and the Early Modern, not least because the cultural investments in maintaining that division are exceptionally powerful. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server. ![]()
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