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1993

“Die interdisziplinäre Kriegsmaschine”

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Citation: “Die interdisziplinäre Kriegsmaschine.” Texte zur Kunste, No. 12 (Nov. 1993): 127-37.

[German abridged version of “The Interdisciplinary War Machine,” later published in English in Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database).]

 

1993

“The Economy of Lyric: The Ruined Cottage”

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Citation: “The Economy of Lyric: The Ruined Cottage.” Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism. Ed. Karl Kroeber and Gene W. Ruoff. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993. 139-53.

[Abridged reprint of chapter 7 of Wordsworth: The Sense of History.]

 

1990

“Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail”

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Citation: “Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail.” Representations 32 (Fall 1990): 75-113.

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1989

“Wordsworth and Subversion: Trying Cultural Criticism”

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Citation: “Wordsworth and Subversion: Trying Cultural Criticism.” Yale Journal of Criticism 2.2 (Spring 1989): 55-100.

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1989

“The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism”

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Citation: “The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism.” ELH 56 (1989): 721-71.

  • DOI: 10.2307/2873158
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  • Translations of essay:
    • “El Poder del Formalismo: El Nuevo Historicismo.” Nuevo Historicismo. Ed. Antonio Penedo y Gonzalo Pontón. Madrid: Arco/Libros, 1998. 193-261.
    • “Die Macht des Formalismus: Der New Historicism.” New Historicism. Literaturgeschichte als Poetik der Kultur. Ed. Moritz Baßler. Frankfurt am M.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995. 94-163.
    • “Il potere del formalismo:il nuovo storicismo.” Trans. Angela Tranfo. L’Asino d’oro 4.8 (November 1993; special issue on “Il nuovo storicismo“): 78-122.

 

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1988

Review Article on David Simpson’s Wordsworth’s Historical Imagination

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Citation: Review Article on David Simpson’s Wordsworth’s Historical Imagination. The Wordsworth Circle 19 (1988): 172-81.

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1986

“Christopher Smart’s ‘Uncommunicated Letters’: Translation and the Ethics of Literary History”

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Citation: “Christopher Smart’s ‘Uncommunicated Letters’: Translation and the Ethics of Literary History.” Boundary 2, 14.1-2 (1985-86): 115-46.

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1984

“Wordsworth: The History in ‘Imagination'”

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Citation: “Wordsworth: The History in ‘Imagination.'” ELH 51 (1984): 505-48.

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1984

“On the Autobiographical Present: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals”

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Citation: “On the Autobiographical Present: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journals.” Criticism 26 (1984): 115-37.

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1984

“Toward a Theory of Common Sense: Beckford’s Vathek and Johnson’s Rasselas“

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Citation: “Toward a Theory of Common Sense: Beckford’s Vathek and Johnson’s Rasselas.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 26 (1984): 183-217.

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1982

“‘Shapeless Eagerness’: The Genre of Revolution in Books 9-10 of The Prelude“

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Citation: “‘Shapeless Eagerness’: The Genre of Revolution in Books 9-10 of The Prelude.” Modern Language Quarterly 43 (1982): 3-28.

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