Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies

Stephen Greenblatt, Giles Gunn

Modern Language Association of America, Jan 1, 1992 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 595 pages

In this collection of essays, twenty-four leading scholars examine the major developments that have expanded the horizons of English and American literary studies during recent decades.Redrawing the Boundaries reviews the significant scholarship for major historical periods and surveys new directions in literary criticism and in composition studies. Each essay is accompanied by an annotated list of suggestions for further reading; the book concludes with an extensive list of works cited and a name index.For scholars, teachers, and students of literature, this remarkable work provides an essential overview of traditions and innovations that make up English and American literary studies today.

About the author

Stephen Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar. He is the author of Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley (1965); Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (1980); Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (1990); Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (1992); The Norton Shakespeare (1997); Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004); Shakespeare's Freedom (2010); and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies
• Editors: Stephen Greenblatt, Giles Gunn
• Edition: reprint, annotated
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America, 1992
• ISBN: 0873523962, 9780873523967
• Length: 595 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching; Literary Criticism / American / General