LITERARY HISTORICISM / LITERARY HISTORY / THE TRADITION / INTERTEXTUALITY / CANONICITY

SUB-PAGES

• Definitions

Feminist:

• Feminist Perspectives on Literary Historicism, Literary History, Tradition, Intertextuality and Canonicity

Post-colonial:

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Literary Historicism, Literary History, Tradition, Intertextuality and Canonicity

ASSOCIATIONS

• Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN)

CONFERENCES

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)

JOURNALS

• American Literary History (Ingenta)

• American Literary History (JSTOR)

• ELH

• Literature and History

• New Literary History (Johns Hopkins UP)

• New Literary History (Project Muse)

• Zeitschrift für Religions und Geistesgeschichte [Journal of Religious and Intellectual History]

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

'Old' Historicists:

• Hippolyte Taine (1828 - 1893)
• Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911) (see also Romanticisms and Neo-Romanticisms)

• Karl Vossler (1872 - 1949)

• Ernst Robert Curtius (1886 - 1956)

• Leo Spitzer (1887 - 1960)

• Erich Auerbach (1892 - 1957)

• M. H. Abrams (1912 - )

• Ian Watt (1917 - 1999)

New Historicists:

• Stephen Greenblatt (1943 - )
• Louis Adrian Montrose ( - )
• Jerome J. McGann ( - )

Schools of Criticism:

• Continental Literary Theory:
  • Marxist Literary Theory:
    • Dialogical (Bakhtinian) Literary Theory
    • Structuralist Marxist Literary Theory
  • Phenomenological / Existentialist / Hermeneutical Literary Theory:
    • Deconstructive Literary Theory
    • Foucauldian Literary Theory
  • Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Literary Theory:
    • Structuralist (Lacanian) Psychoanalytic Literary Theory
  • Semiotic / Semiological / Structuralist Literary Theory:
    • Russian Formalism
• Pragmatist Aesthetics / Critical Theory:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Literary Historicism:

    • General:

    • 'Old' Historicism:
    • 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.
  • Literary History / The Tradition:
    • Brown, Marshall, ed.  The Uses of Literary History.  Durham: Duke UP, 1985.
    • Besserman, Lawrence.  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.
    • 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.

  • Intertextuality:
    • Orr, Mary, ed.  Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts.  Cambridge: Polity, 2003.
  • Canonicity:
    • Hallberg, Robert von, ed.  Canons.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.
• Selected Individual Works:

  • Theoretical Works:

    • Literary Historicism:

      • General:

        • Bennett, Tony.  "Outside Literature: Texts in History."  Postmodern History Reader.  Ed. Keith Jenkins.  219-230.
        • Jackson, J. R. de J.  Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts.  1989.
        • Lacapra, Dominick.  History, Politics, and the Novel.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989.
        • Lacapra, Dominick.  History and Criticism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985.

      • '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.

    • Literary History / The Tradition:

      • Bahti, Timothy.  Allegories of History: Literary Historiography after Hegel.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.

      • Behler, Ernst.  "Problems of Origin in Modern Literary History."  Theoretical Issues in Literary History.  Ed. David Perkins.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.

      • Booth, Wayne.  A Rhetoric of Irony.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1975.

      • 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.

      • Crewe, Jonathan.  Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.

      • Curtius, Ernst Robert.  European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.  Trans. Willard Trask.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953.

      • 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, Conn.: 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, Mass.: Harvard UP, 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.

      • 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: Hemisphere, 1975.

      • Moretti, Franco.  "On Literary Evolution." Signs Taken for Wonders.  London: Verso, 1988.  262-278.

      • Patterson, Lee.  "Literary History."  Critical Terms for Literary Studies.  Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.  250-262.

      • 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.

      • 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.

      • 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]

        • "English Literary Historiography During the Nineteenth Century."  Discriminations: Further Concepts of Criticism.  New Have: Yale UP, 1970.  143-163.
        • "The Concept of Evolution in Literary History."  Concepts of Criticism.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1963.  37-53.
        • "Literary History."  Literary Scholarship.  Ed. N. Foerster.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1949.
        • "Six Kinds of Literary History."  The Critical Significance of Biographical Evidence.  New York: Columbia UP, 1947.  [1946]
        • "Literary History."  Theory of Literature.  New York: Harcourt Brace, 1942.  252-269.
        • 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.
      • Wolfflin, Heinrich.  Principles of Art History: the Problem of Development of Style in Later Art.  Trans. M. D. Hottinger.  New York: Dover, 1950.
      • Regional Literary Histories:
        • Classical Greece and Rome:
          • Easterling, P. E., and B. M. W. Knox.  Greek Literature.  Vol. 1.  The Cambridge History of Classical Literature.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985. 
          • Muller, K. O., and John William Donaldson.  A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece.  London: John W. Parker, 1858.
        • Europe:
          • France:
            • Hollier, Dennis.  A New History of French Literature.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1989.
          • Germany:
            • Hohendahl, Peter Uwe.  Building a National Literature: the Case of Germany, 1830-1870.  1985.
          • UK:

            • Allen, Walter.  The English Novel: a Short Critical History.  London: 1954.

            • Baker, Ernest.  The History of the English Novel.  9 Vols.  London: , 1928-1938.

            • Bate, Walter Jackson.  The Burden of the past and the English Poet.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1970.

            • Bateson, F. W.  English Poetry and the English Language: an Experiment in Literary History.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1934.

            • Evans, B. Ifor.  English Poetry in the Later Nineteenth Century.  London: Methuen, 1933.
            • Fowler, Alastair.  A History of English Literature.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
            • Legouis, Emile, and Louis Cazamian.  Histoire de la littérature Anglaise.  1924.
            • Taine, Hippolyte.  Histoire de la littérature Anglaise.  1863-1864.  History of English Literature.  2 Vols.  Trans. H. Van Laun.  Edinburgh: Edmonston and Hughes.  1872.
            • Warton, Thomas.  History of English Poetry.  (1744-1781)
        • USA:

          • Allen, Donald M., ed.  The New American Poetry.  New York: Grove, 1960.

          • Baym, Nina.  Feminism and American Literary History.  New Brunswick, NJ.: Rutgers UP, 1992.

          • Bercovitch, Sacvan.  "America as Canon and Context: Literary History in a Time of Dissensus."  American Literature 58 (1986): 99-107.

          • Bercovitch, Sacvan.  "The Problem of Ideology in American Literary History."  Critical Inquiry 12 (1986): .

          • Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed.  The Cambridge History of American Literature.  8 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1994.

          • Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed.  Reconstructing American Literary History.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1986.

          • Bloom, Alan.  The Closing of the American Mind.  

          • Budd, Louis J., et al., eds.  Toward a New American Literary History: Essays in Honor of Arlin Turner.  Durham: Duke UP, 1980.

          • Buell, Lawrence.  "American Literary Emergence as a Postcolonial Phenomenon."  American Literary History 4.3 (1992): .

          • Elliott, Emory.  The Columbia Literary History of the United States.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.

          • Elliott, Emory.  "New Literary History: Past and Present."  American Literature 57 (1985): 611-621.

          • Elliott, Emory.  "The Politics of Literary History."  American Literature 59.2 (1987): .

          • Fakrul, Alum.  "The Newer Criticism: New Directions in American Literary History."  South Carolina Review 21 (1988): 65-68.

          • Golding, Alan C.  "A History of American Poetry Anthologies."  Canons.  Ed. Robert von Hallberg.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.

          • Hunter, Gordon, ed.  The American Literary History Reader.  Oxford: OUP, 1995.  

          • Kolodny, Annette.  "The Integrity of Memory: Creating a New Literary History of the United States."  American Literature 57 (1985): 291-307.

          • Lauter, Paul.  "Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon."  Feminist Studies 9 (1983): 435-463.

          • Neeper, Layne.  "Inventing Tradition: America's First Literary Histories."  Studies in the American Renaissance 1994.  Ed. Joel Myerson.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1994.  1-19.

          • Spengemann, William.  "American Things / Literary Things: the Problem of American Literary History."  American Literature 57 (1985): 456-481.

          • Spiller, Robert E., Willard Thorp, Thomas H. Johnson, Henry Seidel Canby, and Richard M. Ludwig.  Literary History of the United State.  New York: Macmillan, 1948.

          • Trent, William P., et al., eds.  The Cambridge History of American Literature.  New York: Macmillan, 1917-1918.

    • Intertextuality:

    • 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.

      • Bloom, Harold.  The Western Canon: the Books and Schools of the Ages.  New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.

      • 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.

      • Kermode, Frank.  Pleasure, Change, and Canon.  Oxford: OUP, 2004.

      • Kermode, Frank.  Making of the Modern Canon: Genesis and Crisis of a Literary Idea.  London: Athlone, 1991.

      • Kermode, Frank.  The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change.  New York: Viking, 1975.  2nd Ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1983.

      • Kermode, Frank.  "Canon and Period."  History and Value.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.  113-170.

      • 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.

      • Smith, Barbara Hernstein.  Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Literary Historicism:

    • General:

      • Hutcheon, Linda, and Mario J. Valdes, eds.  Rethinking Literary History: a Dialogue on Theory.  Oxford: OUP, 2002.

    • 'Old' Historicism:

    • New Historicism:

  • Literary History / The Tradition:
    • Hutcheon, Linda, and Mario J. Valdes, eds.  Rethinking Literary History: a Dialogue on Theory.  Oxford: OUP, 2002.
  • Intertextuality:
    • Worton, M., and J. Still, eds.  Intertextuality: Theories and Practices.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1990.
  • Canonicity:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Literary Historicism:

    • General:

      • Hamilton, Paul.  Historicism.  London: Routledge, 1996.
      • Harrington, Austin.  Art and Social Theory: Sociological Arguments in Aesthetics.  Cambridge: Polity, 2004.
      • Harris, Wendell V.  "Context."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.  42-49.
      • Harris, Wendell V.  "Historical Scholarship."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.  138-143.
      • Harris, Wendell V.  "Historicism."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1992.  143-152.

      • 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.

      • 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.

    • 'Old' Historicism:

      • Green, Geoffrey.  Literary Criticism and the Structures of History: Eric Auerbach and Leo Spitzer.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska, 1982.

    • 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.

  • 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.
    • Harris, Wendell V.  "Literary History."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  185-193.

    • 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.

    • 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.  Also in Brown.
    • 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.

    • 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.

    • Valdes, Mario J., and Linda Hutcheon.  "Rethinking Literary History -- Comparatively."  American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper 27, 1995.

  • 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. 
    • Johnson, Christopher M.  "Intertextuality and the Psychic Model."  Paragraph 2 (1988): 71-89.
    • Kellett, E. E.  Literary Quotation and Allusion.  Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1969.  [1933]
  • 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.  "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. 

      • Rpt. in  Critical Terms for Literary Studies.  Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.  177-185.

On-Line:

• Literary Historicism:

  • General:

    • Dictionnaire Internationale des Termes Litteraires: Geistesgeschichte

    • Dickstein, Morris: Literary Theory and Historical Understanding Chronicle of Higher Education May 23, 2003

    • Lee, Richard E.: Cultural Studies as Geisteswissenschaften: Time, Objectivity, and the Future of Social Science

    • University of Oxford: History and Literature Reading List

    • SBF: GeistesWissenschaften

    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

      • Geistesgeschichte

      • Historicism

      • Sociology of Art

  • 'Old' Historicism:

  • New Historicism:

    • Felluga, Dino: Introduction to New Historicism

    • McManus, Barbara F.: New Historicism

    • Myers, D. G.: The New Historicism in Literary Study

    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: New Historicism

• Literary History / The Tradition:

  • Cambridge History of English and American Literature: an Encyclopedia (18 Volumes) (1907–21)

  • Wellek, Rene:

    • Evolution of Literature (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)

    • Periodisation in Literary History (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

    • History of Literature

    • Tradition

    • Tradition, Oral

    • Tradition, Poetic

• Intertextuality:

  • Chandler, Daniel: Intertextuality (Semiotics for Beginners)

  • Griffiths, Eric: Dante, Primo Levi and the Intertextualists Times Literary Supplement May 7, 2008

  • Keep, Christopher, et al.: Intertextuality

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Intertextuality

• Canonicity:

  • Goucher College: Canon of English Literature

  • Howard, Jennifer: The Literary Anthology, Revised and Excised Chronicle of Higher Education December 21, 2007

  • Mandell. Laura: Romantic Canons: a Bibliography

  • Myers, D. G.: The Bogey of the Canon

  • Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet: Canon Formation Revisited: Canon and Cultural Production Neohelicon 29 (202): .

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: