LITERARY HISTORICISM, LITERARY HISTORY, THE TRADITION, INTERTEXUALITY, CANONICITY

PHILWEB BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ARCHIVE

THEORETICAL RESOURCES OFF- AND ON-LINE

CONTENTS

LITERARY HISTORY / INTERTEXTUALITY / CANONICITY
HISTORICISM
THE LITERARY TRADITION

ASSOCIATIONS

Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN)

CONFERENCES

2012:

2011:

2010:

Literature, History, Cognition, Departments of French and Philosophy, University of Nottingham, October 15
Technology, Textuality, and Transmission, Third Material Cultures Conference, University of Edinburgh, July 16-18

2009:

2008:

Transmissions and Transformations of Italian Culture, Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference,
Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, April 25-26

2007:

The Past in the Present: History as Practice in Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Historical and Critical Studies, Glasgow School of Art, October 27-29

2006:

Adaptation(s): Transfers and Society, Centre de Recherche sur l'Intermedialite, Université de Montréal, November 15-17
Appropriations of Antiquity, Department of Greek and Latin, University College, University of London, April 21

2005:

2004:

2003:

Textual Intercourse, Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Américaines de Tours, Université de Tours (François Rabelais), September 18-19
Literary Education and Canon Formation, AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures, University College and SOAS, University of London, May 8-9

2002:

2001:

2000:

COURSES

University of California, Santa Barbara: Historical Interpretation (Liu)
SUNY, Binghamton: Assumptions of Literary History (Moreira)

JOURNALS

American Literary History (Ingenta)
American Literary History (JSTOR)
ELH
Literature & History (Alt.)
New Literary History (Johns Hopkins UP)
New Literary History (Project Muse)
Zeitschrift für Religions und Geistesgeschichte [Journal of Religious and Intellectual History]

PERSONS

Literary History:

Intertexuality:

Harold Bloom (1930 - )

Canonicity:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Literary History / The Tradition:
  - Barker, Simon, and Jo Gill, eds. Literature as History: Essays in Honour of Peter Widdowson. London: Continuum, 2010.
  - Brown, Marshall, ed. The Uses of Literary History. Durham: Duke UP, 1985.
  - Besserman, Lawrence, ed. The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives. New York: Garland, 1996.
  - Clayton, Jay, and Eric Rothstein, eds. Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991.
  - Cohen, Ralph, ed. New Directions in Literary History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1974.
  - Damon, Philip, ed. Literary Criticism and Historical Understanding. 1967.
  - Edel, Leon, ed. Literary History and Literary Criticism. New York: New York UP, 1964.
  - Hutcheon, Linda, and Mario J. Valdes, eds. Rethinking Literary History: a Dialogue on Theory. Oxford: OUP, 2002.
  - Marshall, Donald G., ed. The Force of Tradition: Response and Resistance in Literature, Religion, and Cultural Studies. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
  - Perkins, David, ed. Theoretical Issues in Literary History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
  - Smallwood, Philip, ed. Critical Pasts: Writing Criticism, Writing History. Lewisberg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2004.
  - Sussman, Herbert L., ed. Literary History: Theory and Practice. Vol. 2. Boston: Proceedings of the Northeastern University Centre for Literary Studies, 1984.
  - Wong, Tak-Wai, and M. A. Abbas, eds. Rethinking Literary History. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 1984.
  - New Historicism:
    - Ryan, Kiernan, ed. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: a Reader. London: Edward Arnold, 1996.
    - Veeser, H. Aram, ed. The New Historicism. London: Routledge, 1989.
    - Wilson, Richard, ed. New Historicism and Renaissance Drama. London: Longman, 1992.
- Intertextuality:
  - Clayton, Jay, and Eric Rothstein, eds. Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991.
  - Orr, Mary, ed. Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts. Cambridge: Polity, 2003.
  - Worton, M., and J. Still, eds. Intertextuality: Theories and Practices. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1990.
- Canonicity:
  - Hallberg, Robert von, ed. Canons. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.
  - Morrissey, Lee, ed. Debating the Canon: a Reader from Addison to Nafisi. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Selected Individual Works:
- Literary History / The Tradition:
  - Bahti, Timothy. Allegories of History: Literary Historiography after Hegel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.
  - Bate, Walter Jackson. The Burden of the Past and the English Poet. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1970.
  - Behler, Ernst. "Problems of Origin in Modern Literary History." Theoretical Issues in Literary History. Ed. David Perkins. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
  - Bennett, Tony. "Outside Literature: Texts in History." Postmodern History Reader. Ed. Keith Jenkins. 219-230.
  - Brown, Marshall. "Contemplating the Theory of Literary History." PMLA 107.1 (1992): .
  - Brunetière, Ferdinand. Etudes critiques sur l'histoire de la littérature Française. Paris: Hachette, 1912.
  - Brunetière, Ferdinand. L'Evolution des genres dans l'histoire de la littérature. Paris: Hachette, 1914.
  - Brunetière, Ferdinand. Manual of the History of French Literature. Trans. Ralph Derechef. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898.
  - Bush, Douglas. "Literary History and Literary Criticism." Literary History and Literary Criticism. Ed. Leon Edel. 1964.
  - Cohen, Ralph. "History and Genre." New Literary History 17 (1986): 203-218.
  - Cohen, Ralph. "Genre Theory, Literary History, and Historical Change." Theoretical Issues in Literary History. Ed. David Perkins. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
  - Colebrook, Claire. New Literary Histories. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1997.
  - Crane, R. S. "Critical and Historical Principles of Literary History." 1950.
    - Critical and Historical Principles of Literary History. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1971.
    - Vol. 2 of The Idea of the Humanities, and Other Essays Critical and Historical. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967. 45-156.
  - Crane, R. S. "History Versus Criticism in the Study of Literature." English Journal 24 (1935): .
    - Vol. 2 of The Idea of the Humanities, and Other Essays Critical and Historical. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1967. 3-24.
  - De Man, Paul. "Literary History and Literary Modernity." Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. Oxford: OUP, 1971. 142-165.
  - Fowler, Alastair. "The Two Histories." Theoretical Issues in Literary History. Ed. David Perkins. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.
  - Guillen, Claudio. Literature as System: Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971.
  - Guillen, Claudio. "Second Thoughts on Currents and Periods." The Disciplines of Criticism. Ed. Peter Demetz, T. Greene, and L. Nelson. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1968.
  - Guillory, John. Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton, and Literary History. New York: Columbia UP, 1983.
  - Hankiss, Elemer. "The Structure of Literary Evolution." Poetics 5 (1972): .
  - Hogan, Patrick Colm. Joyce, Milton, and the Theory of Influence. Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1995.
  - Hollier, Dennis. "On Writing Literary History." A New History of French Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1989.
  - Hutcheon, Linda. "Interventionist Literary Histories: Nostalgic, Pragmatic or Utopian?" Modern Language Quarterly 59 (1998): .
  - Hutcheon, Linda. "Rethinking the National Model." Rethinking Literary History: a Dialogue on Theory. Ed. Linda Hutcheon and Mario J. Valdes. Oxford: OUP, 2002. 3-49.
  - Hutcheon, Linda. Irony's Edge: the Theory and Politics of Irony. London: Routledge, 1995.
  - Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Parody: the Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2001.
  - Jackson, J. R. de J. Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts. 1989.
  - Kushner, Eva. "Literary History as Dialogue Among Nations." Neohelicon 20.2 (1993): 29-41.
  - Kushner, Eva. Les Renouvellements dans la théorie de l'histoire littéraire. Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada, 1982.
  - LaCapra, Dominick. History, Politics, and the Novel. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989.
  - LaCapra, Dominick. History and Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985.
  - Lipking, Lawrence. "Night Thoughts on Literary History." Literary History: Theory and Practice. Vol. 2. Ed. Herbert L. Sussman. Boston: Proceedings of the Northeastern University Centre for Literary Studies, 1984.
  - Lodge, David. "Historicism and Literary History: Mapping the Modern Period." New Literary History 10 (1979): 547-555.
  - Lowe, John Livingston. Convention and Revolt in Poetry. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919.
  - Martindale, Colin. "The Laws of Literary History." The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture as Theory and Application. Ed. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Irene Sywenky. Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature and Cross-Cultural Studies and Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, 1997.
  - Martindale, Colin. Romantic Progressions: the Psychology of Literary History. Washington, DC: Hemisphere, 1975.
  - Moretti, Franco. "On Literary Evolution." Signs Taken for Wonders. London: Verso, 1988. 262-278.
  - Perkins, David. Is Literary History Possible?. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.
  - Perkins, David. "Some Prospects for Literary History." Modern Language Quarterly 54.1 (1993): 133-139.
    - The Uses of Literary History. Ed. Marshall Brown. Durham: Duke UP, 1985.
  - Portales, Maco A. "Literary History as a 'Usable Past,' and Space." MELUS 11.1. (1984): .
  - Rothstein, Eric. "Diversity and Change in Literary History." Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History. Ed. Jay Clayton and Eric Rothstein. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991. 114-145.
  - Slawinski, Janusz. "Reading and Reader in the Literary Historical Process." New Literary History 19 (1988): 521-539.
  - Valdes, Mario J. "Rethinking the History of Literary History." Rethinking Literary History: a Dialogue on Theory. Ed. Linda Hutcheon and Mario J. Valdes. Oxford: OUP, 2002. 63-115.
  - Wellek, René. "The Fall of Literary History." The Attack on Literature and Other Essays. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1982. 64-77. [1973]
  - Wellek, René. "English Literary Historiography During the Nineteenth Century." Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism. New Have: Yale UP, 1970. 143-163.
  - Wellek, René. "The Concept of Evolution in Literary History." Concepts of Criticism. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963. 37-53.
  - Wellek, René. "Literary History." Literary Scholarship. Ed. N. Foerster. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1949.
  - Wellek, René. "Six Kinds of Literary History." The Critical Significance of Biographical Evidence. New York: Columbia UP, 1947. [1946]
  - Wellek, René. "Literary History." Theory of Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1942. 252-269.
  - Wellek, René. The Rise of English Literary History. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1941.
  - White, Hayden. "The Problem of Change in Literary History." New Literary History 7 (1975): 97-111.
  - Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks. "The Historical Method." Literary Criticism: a Short History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. 522-551.
  - Wolfflin, Heinrich. Principles of Art History: the Problem of Development of Style in Later Art. Trans. M. D. Hottinger. New York: Dover, 1950.
  - 'Old' Historicism:
    - Tillyard, E. M. The Elizabethan World Picture. London: Cox and Wyman, 1943.
    - Wimsatt, W. K. "History and Criticism: a Problematic Relationship." The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1954. 253-266.
  - New Historicism:
    - Belsey, Catherine. "Literature, History, Politics." Literature, Politics and Theory. Ed. Francis Barker, et al. Colchester: U of Essex, 1986.
    - Butler, Marilyn. "Against Tradition: the Case for a Particularised Historical Method." Historical Studies and Literary Criticism. Ed. Jerome J. McGann. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1985. 25-47.
    - Dollimore, Jonathan. "Introduction: Shakespeare, Cultural Materialism, and the new Historicism." Political Shakespeare. Ed. Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1985. 2-17.
    - Mullaney, Steven. "After the New Historicism." Alternative Shakespeares 2. Ed. Terrence Hawkes. London: Routledge, . 17-37.
    - Sinfield, Alan. "Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals." Critical Quarterly 28 (1986): .
    - Sinfield, Alan. "Power and Ideology: an Outline Theory and Sidney's Arcadia." ELH 52 (1985): 259-277.
    - Sinfield, Alan. Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660. London: Croom Helm, 1983.
    - Weimann, Robert. "Towards a Literary Theory of Ideology: Mimesis, Representation, Authority." Shakespeare Reproduced: the Text in History and Ideology. Ed. Jean E. Howard and Marion F. O'Connor. London: Routledge, 1987. 265-272.
    - Weimann, Robert. Structure and Society in Literary History: Studies in the History and Theory of Historical Criticism. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1976.
    - New Historicist Criticism:
      - Apter, Emily. Continental Drift: from National Characters to Virtual Subjects. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999.
      - Buell, Frederick. National Culture and the New Global System. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
      - Dollimore, Jonathan. Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.
      - Dollimore, Jonathan, and Alan Sinfield, eds. Political Shakespeare. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1985.
      - Drakakis, John, ed. Alternative Shakespeares. London: Methuen, 1985.
      - Gallagher, Catherine, and Stephen Greenblatt. Practising New Historicism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000.
      - Goldberg, Jonathan. James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and their Contemporaries. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1983.
      - Hawkes, Terrence, ed. Alternative Shakespeares 2. London: Routledge, .
      - Howard, Jean E., and Marion F. O'Connor, eds. Shakespeare Reproduced: the Text in History and Ideology. London: Routledge, 1987.
      - Liu, Alan. Wordsworth: the Sense of History. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991.
      - Simpson, David. Wordsworth's Historical Imagination: the Poetry of Displacement. London: Methuen, 1987.
      - Siskin, Clifford. The Historicity of Romantic Discourse. Oxford: OUP, 1988.
      - Sinfield, Alan. Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading.Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.
      - Sinfield, Alan. Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660. London: Methuen, 1982.
      - Tennenhouse, Leonard. Power on Display: the Politics of Shakespeare's Genres. 1986.
- Intertextuality:
  - Barth, John. "The Literature of Replenishment: Postmodern Fiction." 1979.
    - The Friday Book: Essays and Other Non-Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1984. 193-206.
  - Barth, John. "The Literature of Exhaustion." 1967.
    - The Friday Book: Essays and Other Non-Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1984. 62-76.
- Canonicity:
  - Adams, Hazard. "Canons: Literary Criteria / Power Criteria." Critical Inquiry 14.1 (1988): .
  - Altieri, Charles. Canons and Consequences: Reflections on the Ethical Force of Imaginative Ideals. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1991.
  - Altieri, Charles. "An Idea and Ideal of a Literary Canon." Critical Inquiry 10 (1983): 37-60.
  - Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
  - Cahn, Walter. Masterpieces: Chapters on the History of an Idea. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979.
  - Clark, Kenneth. What is a Masterpiece? London: , 1979.
  - Clausen, Christopher. "It is Not Elitist to Place Major Literature at the Center of the English Curriculum." Chronicle of Higher Education 13 (1988): A52.
  - Fowler, Alastair. "Genre and the Literary Canon." New Literary History 11 (1979): 97-119. (also in his Kinds of Literature)
  - Guillory, John. Cultural Capital: the Problem of Literary Canon Formation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.
  - Guillory, John. "Canonical and Non-Canonical: a Critique of the Current Debate." ELH 54 (1987): 483-527.
  - Kennedy, George. "Classics and Canons." South Atlantic Quarterly 89 (1990): 217-225.
  - Kenner, Hugh. "The Making of the Modernist Canon." Chicago Review 34 (1984): 49-61. Rpt. in Canons. Ed. Robert von Hallberg. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.
  - Kuipers, Christo. The Canon. London: Routledge, 2009.
  - Lauter, Paul. Canons and Contexts. Oxford: OUP, 1991.
  - Lauter, Paul. "Caste, Class and Canon." A Gift of Tongues. Ed. Marie Harris, et al. 1987.
  - Levin, Harry. "Core, Canon, Curriculum." College English 43 (1981): 352-362.
  - Scholes, Robert. "Aiming a Canon at the Curriculum." Salmagundi 72 (1986): 101-165.

On-Line:

Literary History / The Tradition:
- Valdes, Mario J., and Linda Hutcheon: Rethinking Literary History -- Comparatively American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper 27, 1995.
- New Historicism:
Intertextuality:
- Barth, John:
  - Do I Repeat Myself? The Problem of the 'Already-Said' The Atlantic (August 2011)
  - The Literature of Replenishment (1979)
  - The Literature of Exhaustion (1967)
Canonicity:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Literary History / The Tradition:
  - New Historicism:
- Intertextuality:
- Canonicity:
Selected Individual Works:
- Literary History / The Tradition:
  - Champagne, Roland. Literary History after Roland Barthes: Re-Defining the Myths of Reality. Alabama: Summa Publications, 1984.
  - Dentith, Simon. Parody. London: Routledge, 2000.
  - Hamilton, Paul. Historicism. London: Routledge, 1996.
  - Harris, Wendell V. "Context." Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 42-49.
  - Harris, Wendell V. "Historical Scholarship." Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 138-143.
  - Harris, Wendell V. "Historicism." Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 143-152.
  - Harris, Wendell V. "Literary History." Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 185-193.
  - Patterson, Annabel. "Historical Scholarship." Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures. Ed. Joseph Gibaldi. 2nd ed. New York: MLA, 1992. .
  - Patterson, Lee. "Literary History." Critical Terms for Literary Studies. Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990. 250-262.
  - Renza, Louis A. "Influence." Critical Terms for Literary Studies. Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990. 186-202.
  - Rose, M. A. Parody: Ancient, Modern and Post-Modern. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
  - Russo, John Paul. "Historical Theory and Criticism." Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994. 382-388.
  - Spiller, Robert. "Literary History." The Aims and Methods of Literary Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures. Ed. James Thorpe. New York: Modern Language Association, 1963.
  - New Historicism:
    - Brannigan, John. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998.
    - Cohen, Walter. "Political Criticism of Shakespeare." Shakespeare Reproduced: the Text in History and Ideology. Ed. Jean E. Howard and Marion F. O'Connor. London: Routledge, 1987. 18-46.
    - Cadzow, Hunter, Alison Conway and Bryce Traister. “New Historicism.” John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.
    - Cressy, David. "Foucault, Stone, Shakespeare and Social History." English Literary Renaissance (): 121-133.
    - Fish, Stanley. "Commentary: the Young and the Restless." The New Historicism. Ed. H. Aram Veeser. London: Routledge, 1989. 304-316.
      - There's No Such Thing As Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too. Oxford: OUP, 1994. 243-256.
    - Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. "Literary Criticism and the Politics of the New Historicism." The New Historicism. Ed. H. Aram Veeser. London: Routledge, 1989. 213-223.
    - Gallagher, Catherine. "Marxism and the New Historicism." The New Historicism. Ed. H. Aram Veeser. London: Routledge, 1989. 38-48.
    - Goldberg, Jonathan. "The Politics of Renaissance Literature: a Review Essay." ELH 49 (1982): 514-542.
    - Howard, Jean. "The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies" English Literary Renaissance 16 (1986): 13-43
    - Lentricchia, Frank. "Foucault's Legacy - a New Historicism." The New Historicism. Ed. H. Aram Veeser. London: Routledge, 1989. 231-242.
    - Levin, Richard. "Bashing the Bourgeois Subject." Textual Practice 3.1 (1989): . 76-86.
    - Pechter, Edward. "The New Historicism and its Discontents." PMLA 102.3 (1987): 292-302.
    - Terdiman, Richard. "Is there a Class in this Class?" The New Historicism. Ed. H. Aram Veeser. London: Routledge, 1989. 225-230.
    - Thomas, Brook. "The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics." The New Historicism. Ed. H. Aram Veeser. London: Routledge, 1989. 182-203.
    - Wayne, Don E. "Power, Politics and the Shakespearean Text: Recent Criticism in England and the United States." Shakespeare Reproduced: the Text in History and Ideology. Ed. Jean E. Howard and Marion F. O'Connor. London: Routledge, 1987. 47-67.
    - White, Hayden. "New Historicism: a Comment." The New Historicism. Ed. H. Aram Veeser. London: Routledge, 1989.
    - Wilson, Richard. "Introduction: Historicising New Historicism." New Historicism and Renaissance Drama. Ed. Wilson. London: Longman, 1992. 1-18.
- Intertextuality:
  - Allen, Graham. Intertextuality. London: Routledge, 2000.
  - Harris, Wendell V. "Intertextuality." Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 175-178.
  - Irwin, William. "Against Intertextuality." Philosophy and Literature 28.2 (2004): 227-242.
  - Johnson, Christopher M. "Intertextuality and the Psychic Model." Paragraph 2 (1988): 71-89.
  - Kellett, E. E. Literary Quotation and Allusion. 1933. Rpt. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1969.
- Canonicity:
  - Guillory John. "Canon." Critical Terms for Literary Studies. Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990. 233-249.
  - Harris, Wendell V. "Canonicity." PMLA 106 (1991): 110-121.
  - Harris, Wendell V. "Canon." Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 21-27.
  - Harris, Wendell V. "Classic." Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 27-30.
  - Harris, Wendell V. "Evaluation." Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992. 81-88.
  - Ross, Trevor. The Making of the English Literary Canon from the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, .
  - Smith, Barbara Hernstein. "Value / Evaluation." South Atlantic Quarterly 86.4 (1987): 445-455.
    - Critical Terms for Literary Studies. Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990. 177-185.