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Article: Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.
- Article from:
- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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This annual review of English studies is for the year 2000, a number which may mean something but probably does not. I often think the same thing about my official field, nineteenth-century British literature, and after producing what I view as this monumental annual review of the field, I have still no positive certainties to reach as to the redeeming social value of my and so many others' professional publishing endeavors. I can only say that, while I was surprised at how many traditional kinds of English literary studies are still being written and published (somehow I thought most of them had just gone away, or that you really could not talk any more about the public ...