Pre-Histories and Afterlives
Studies in Critical Method

Edited by Anna Holland and Richard Scholar

Legenda (General Series)

Legenda

23 December 2008  •  162pp

ISBN: 978-1-905981-93-9 (hardback)  •  RRP £80, $110, €95

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If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? ‘Pre-histories’ and ‘afterlives’, methods that have emerged in recent work by Terence Cave, offer new ways of shaping the stories we tell of the past and the analyses we offer. In this volume, distinguished contributors engage in a dialogue with these two new critical methods, exploring their uses in a range of contexts, disciplines, languages and periods. The contributors are Terence Cave, Marian Hobson, Anna Holland, Neil Kenny, Mary McKinley, Richard Scholar, Kate E. Tunstall, and Wes Williams.

Contents:

1-14

Introduction
Anna Holland, Richard Scholar

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15-28

Passions, Emotions, and Pre-Histories
Neil Kenny

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29-44

Abandoning Selfhood with Medieval Mystics
Ben Morgan

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45-60

From Cave to Choir: The Journey of the Sibyls
Mary B. McKinley

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61-80

Early Modern Swansongs
Anna Holland

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81-94

‘Ô Courbes, méandre...’: Montaigne, Epicurus, and the Art of Slowness
John O'Brien

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95-106

Diderot and Montaigne: Portraits and Afterlives
Kate E. Tunstall

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107-120

Diderot’s Neveu de Rameau: Rear-Mirror View (I), or, Using What is in Front and in the Future to Understand What is Past
Marian Hobson

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121-134

Back to the Future: ‘Les Enfantements de Nostre Esprit’
Wes Williams

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135-146

Epilogue. Time’s Arrow
Terence Cave

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Holland, Anna, and Richard Scholar (eds), Pre-Histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical Method (Legenda, 2008)

First footnote reference: 35 Pre-Histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical Method, ed. by Anna Holland and Richard Scholar (Legenda, 2008), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Holland and Scholar, p. 47.

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Holland, Anna, and Richard Scholar (eds). 2008. Pre-Histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical Method (Legenda)

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