Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth CenturyGreg Clingham Traditional eighteenth-century paradigms of reason, truth, and nature underlie modern concepts of self, gender, sex, etc. that are challenged today in the name of a more liberated and pluralistic problematics. This book is the first of two volumes of essays that identify this postmodern challenge. It examines the historiography of postmodern phenomena in relation to the eighteenth-century texts that they ventriloquize. More essays on the topic are contained in Making History (Bucknell Review, Vol. 42, No. 1). |
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Postmodernism and Bunyans The Pilgrims Progress | 19 |
Wintersons Fiction and Enlightenment Historiography | 39 |
Postmodernism and Walpoles Castle of Otranto | 68 |
Rethinking Movement in the EighteenthCentury Print Tradition and the Early Years of Photography and Film | 82 |
The Scriblerians after Wole Soyinka | 121 |
Olaudah Equiano and the Colonial Gift of Language | 142 |
Herder and the Postcolonial Reconfiguring of the Enlightenment | 154 |
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