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title	:	Theory and Tradition in Eighteenth-century Studies
author	:	Schwartz, Richard B.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0809315610
print isbn13	:	9780809315611
ebook isbn13	:	9780585186498
language	:	English
subject	English literature--18th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Congresses, Literature and history--Great Britain--History--18th century--Congresses.
publication date	:	1990
lcc	:	PR442.T44 1990eb
ddc	:	820/.9/005
subject	:	English literature--18th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Congresses, Literature and history--Great Britain--History--18th century--Congresses.

Page iii Theory and Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Studies Edited by Richard B. Schwartz Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville

Page iv Copyright 1990 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 93 92 91 90 4 3 2 1 Edited and designed by Donna E. Butler Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Theory and tradition in eighteenth-century studies/edited by Richard B. Schwartz. p. cm. Papers presented to a NEH-sponsored conference held at Georgetown University on April 13, 1987. Includes bibliographies and index. 1. English literature18th centuryHistory and criticism Theory, etc.Congresses. 2. Literature and historyGreat BritainHistory18th centuryCongresses. I. Schwartz, Richard B. II. National Endowment for the Humanities. PR442.T44 1990 820'.9'005dc19 88-36814 ISBN 0-8093-1561-0 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

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Page vii CONTENTS Preface ix Contributors xiii Part 1 Theory and the Eighteenth Century 1. Literature or Metaliterature?: Thoughts on Traditional Literary Study Donald Greene 3 2. Doing without Theory: A Defense of Cultural History Morris R. Brownell 32 3. Johnson's Voluntary Agents Richard B. Schwartz 51 4. Historical Criticism, Hypotheses, and Eighteenth-Century Studies: The Case for Induction and Neutral Knowledge Howard D. Weinbrot 66 Part 2 Theory and Practice 5. The Discourses of Criticism and the Discourses of History in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Maximillian Novak 95

Page viii 6. The Novel and the Contexts of Discourse J. Paul Hunter 118 Part 3 Challenges and Accomplishments 7. Scholarly Texts: An Unapologetic Defense John H. Middendorf 143 8. Reading Eighteenth-Century Plays Shirley Strum Kenny 162 9. Causes and Consequences in Historical Scholarship Gwin J. Kolb 173 Index 187

Page ix PREFACE The papers in this volume originated as plenary session addresses at a conference held at Georgetown University on 13 April 1987. Fifteen years had elapsed since the last serious look at the state of eighteenth-century literary studies conducted by the English Institute, and I thought it useful to assemble a group of senior scholars in the field to examine issues that we face daily as students of the period. The most important of those questions is the position (or relative nonposition) of contemporary literary theory in contemporary eighteenth-century studies. While open to the insights of theorists and prepared to apply those insights whenever they are helpful, most eighteenth-centuryists have been resistant to the tendency to elevate theory to a position of prominence. Moreover, having seen what followers can do to the original thought of important thinkers (e.g., Newton), they have been far more respectful of the progenitors of theoretical movements than of their popularizers. Thus, I asked the speakers to consider a number of issues as they prepared their papers. No one was asked to focus on a specific topic, but I felt that our present situation raised several key questions. Why have our colleagues often resisted the blandishments of theory? How have they used theory in their own work? What traditions of scholarship have informed their work? What key tasks remain to be performed by students of the period? These questions are interrelated. Some have argued, for example, that literary studies have changed in response to the fact that more traditional approaches have been exhausted. The principal questions, in short, have been answered, and our flogging of dead horses is of small interest to our students and, indeed, to our colleagues. That the task of the literary historian has been completed is absurd; on the other hand, many continue to focus on the same subjects in largely the same ways with, essentially, the same results. Do we need new methods or do we need abler users of traditional methods?

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