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- catalog abstract ""In this vigorous response to recent trends in theory and criticism, David H. Richter asks how we can again learn to practice literary history. Despite the watchword "always historicize," comparatively few monographs attempt genuine historical explanations of literary phenomena. Richter theorizes that the contemporary evasion of history may stem from our sense that the modern literary ideas underlying our historical explanations - Marxism, formalism, and reception theory - are unable, by themselves, to inscribe an adequate narrative of the origins, development, and decline of genres and style systems. Despite theorists' attempts to incorporate others principles of explanation, each of these master narratives on its own has areas of blindness and areas of insight, questions it can answer and questions it cannot even ask. But the explanations, however differently focused, complement one another, with one supplying what another lacks." "Using the first heyday of the Gothic novel as the prime object of study, Richter develops his pluralistic vision of literary history in practice. Successive chapters outline first a neo-Marxist history of the Gothic, using the ideas of Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton to understand the literature of terror as an outgrowth of inexorable tensions within Georgian society; next, a narrative on the Gothic as an institutional form, drawn from the formalist theories of R. S. Crane and Ralph Rader; and finally a study of the reception of the Gothic - the way the romance was sustained by, and in its turn altered, the motives for literary response in the British public around the turn of the nineteenth century.". "In his concluding chapter, Richter returns to the question of theory, to general issues of adequacy and explanatory power in literary history, to the false panaceas of Foucauldian new historicism and cultural studies, and to the necessity of historical pluralism. A learned, engaging, and important book. The Progress of Romance is essential reading for scholars of British literature, narrative, narrative theory, the novel, and the theory of the novel."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b9129884.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""In his concluding chapter, Richter returns to the question of theory, to general issues of adequacy and explanatory power in literary history, to the false panaceas of Foucauldian new historicism and cultural studies, and to the necessity of historical pluralism. A learned, engaging, and important book. The Progress of Romance is essential reading for scholars of British literature, narrative, narrative theory, the novel, and the theory of the novel."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description ""In this vigorous response to recent trends in theory and criticism, David H. Richter asks how we can again learn to practice literary history. Despite the watchword "always historicize," comparatively few monographs attempt genuine historical explanations of literary phenomena. Richter theorizes that the contemporary evasion of history may stem from our sense that the modern literary ideas underlying our historical explanations - Marxism, formalism, and reception theory - are unable, by themselves, to inscribe an adequate narrative of the origins, development, and decline of genres and style systems. Despite theorists' attempts to incorporate others principles of explanation, each of these master narratives on its own has areas of blindness and areas of insight, questions it can answer and questions it cannot even ask. But the explanations, however differently focused, complement one another, with one supplying what another lacks." "Using the first heyday of the Gothic novel as the prime object of study, Richter develops his pluralistic vision of literary history in practice. Successive chapters outline first a neo-Marxist history of the Gothic, using the ideas of Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton to understand the literature of terror as an outgrowth of inexorable tensions within Georgian society; next, a narrative on the Gothic as an institutional form, drawn from the formalist theories of R. S. Crane and Ralph Rader; and finally a study of the reception of the Gothic - the way the romance was sustained by, and in its turn altered, the motives for literary response in the British public around the turn of the nineteenth century.".".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Toward a pluralistic historiography of literature -- Theories of literary history -- The Gothic in history -- The progress of romance: the Gothic as institutional form -- The reception of the Gothic novel in the 1790s -- Ghosts of the Gothic -- Historiographical speculations.".
- catalog extent "xi, 242 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Progress of romance.".
- catalog identifier "0814206948 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0814206956 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Progress of romance.".
- catalog isPartOf "Theory and interpretation of narrative series".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Progress of romance.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.0873809 20".
- catalog subject "English fiction 18th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Gothic revival (Literature) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Horror tales, English History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Literature Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "PR830.T3 R53 1996".
- catalog subject "Reader-response criticism.".
- catalog subject "Romanticism Great Britain.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Toward a pluralistic historiography of literature -- Theories of literary history -- The Gothic in history -- The progress of romance: the Gothic as institutional form -- The reception of the Gothic novel in the 1790s -- Ghosts of the Gothic -- Historiographical speculations.".
- catalog title "The progress of romance : literary historiography and the Gothic novel / David H. Richter.".
- catalog type "text".