Historical Curiosities versus Imperishable Text

Authors

  • Laura Mandell Miami University

Keywords:

poetry, 18th-century literature, 19th-century literature, literary history, popular literature, digital humanities, mediation, book history, print history, visual media,

Abstract

This short essay describes how the field of literary studies was bifurcated by print practices at the discipline’s inception into the historically mimetic and the aesthetically superior, the former kinds of poetry appearing in books of curiositites, and the latter occuring in disciplinary anthologies.

Author Biography

Laura Mandell, Miami University

Professor of English Literature, Director of 18thConnect, Associate Director of NINES, General Editor of the Poetess Archive

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Published

2011-03-08