Michael Mckeon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Mckeon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckeon |
| SIGNATURE | MCKEON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Paradise Lost as a Secret History
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Paradise Lost , Poem of the Restoration Period
John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) is often classified as a Renaissance epic, along with the great narrative poems of Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser. However, this generic designation tells us much less about the formal nature of the poem than we learn when we contextualize it among the long English narratives with which it was contemporary: Butler's Hudibras (1663, 1664, 1678), Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684), Dryden's Absalom an…
Reading Swift
Assembling thirty-five lectures delivered at the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in June 2011, this new volume of Reading Swift testifies to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his works. As in the successful earlier volumes, the essays have been grouped in eight sections: biographical aspects (W. B. Carnochan, John Irwin Fischer, Clive T. Probyn, Abigail Williams); bibliographical an…
Theory and Practice in Historical Method
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What Was an Early Modern Public, and How Was It Made
One argument of The Secret History of Domesticity is that there were two early modern publics, one traditional and one innovative; that the new concept of the public began to emerge when the authority of the old public, until then a matter of tacit belief, was subjected to explicit and rational analysis; and that the rationality of the new public depended on the simultaneous rise of an entirely new concept, the private. This argument responds at …
The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sexuality Hypothesis
Until recently, we’ve thought of the modern sex/gender system and homosexual identity as sociointellectual developments of the later nineteenth century. Over the past three decades, however, evidence has accumulated suggesting that these categories coalesced much earlier—during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (the national reference group here is England). At the beginning of this period, the customary distinction understood male and fem…
Mediation as Primal Word
This chapter argues for the importance of “mediation” by highlighting its antithetical senses—“mediation” can connote both “connection/communication” as well as “intervene/ separate.” It presents a case history of mediation that details the intricate process by which the concept of the aesthetic emerged from an explicit project: the effort to transport the epistemological posture developed by natural philosophy—one based in empirical observation,…
The Secret History of Domesticity
Theory of the Novel
Contents and Contributors: Part One: Genre TheoryNorthrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four EssaysE. D. Hirsch, from Validity in InterpretationClaudio Guillen, from Literature as System: Essays toward the Theory of Literary HistoryJonathan Culler, Toward a Theory of Non-Genre LiteratureMarthe Robert, from Origins of the Two: Novel as Displacement I: StructuralismWalter Benjamin, The StorytellerClaude Levi-Strauss, from Savage Mind, from Origi…
The Origins of Interdisciplinary Studies
At heart of The Origins of English Novel1 lies this question: how can we conceive constitution of categories in full historicity of their emergence-as they amount neither to their prior determinations nor to their eventual selffulfillment? In confronting this question I found myself pursuing a method at once dialectical and interdisciplinary: attentive to modes of negative definition by which the slowly coalesced in terms of what contemporaries c…
"I Wonder Whether Poor Miss Sally Godfrey Be Living or Dead"
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
Realist Literary History
A Defense of Dialectical Method in Literary History
ion as a way of overcoming split between form, content, and context in current approaches to genre theory). Warner's version of theory simply ignores weight of evidence I adduce to argue not only abstract continuity of questions of and virtue but also concrete discontinuity of their instantiations in different periods. Nor is simply a matter of obvious differences between forms-Greek romance, twelfth-century romance, novel-with which questions of…
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
Generic Transformation and Social Change
conduct the study of this crucial literary phenomenon.' The phenomenon is crucial because it is modern. If the novel originated in early modem Europe, it should be possible to observe and describe its emergence within a historical context whose richness of detail has no parallel in earlier periods. But of course this is no coincidence: it is the rise of an unprecedented historical consciousness, and of its institutional affiliates, that has both …
The “Marxism” of Claude Levi-Strauss
Sabbatai Sevi in England
Several years ago Gershom Scholem's authoritative work on the seventeenth century messianic figure Sabbatai Sevi, first published in Hebrew in 1957, appeared in a revised English translation. The importance of Scholem's work for an informed understanding of the Sabbatian movement and for the general study of religious and political movements must be acknowledged by all readers. The relevance of Sabbatai's career in the Levant to the specific hist…
Keywords
Raymond Williams' seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language. First published in 1976, and expanded in 1983, KEYWORDS reveals how the meanings of 131 words - including 'art', 'class', 'family', 'media', 'sex' and 'tradition' - were formed and subsequently altered and redefined as the historical contexts in which they were used changed. Neither a defining dictionary or glossary, KEYWOR…
Politics and Poetry in Restoration England
Theory of the Novel
Contents and Contributors: Part One: Genre TheoryNorthrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four EssaysE. D. Hirsch, from Validity in InterpretationClaudio Guillen, from Literature as System: Essays toward the Theory of Literary HistoryJonathan Culler, Toward a Theory of Non-Genre LiteratureMarthe Robert, from Origins of the Two: Novel as Displacement I: StructuralismWalter Benjamin, The StorytellerClaude Levi-Strauss, from Savage Mind, from Origi…
Keywords
Raymond Williams' seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language. First published in 1976, and expanded in 1983, KEYWORDS reveals how the meanings of 131 words - including 'art', 'class', 'family', 'media', 'sex' and 'tradition' - were formed and subsequently altered and redefined as the historical contexts in which they were used changed. Neither a defining dictionary or glossary, KEYWOR…
The Origins of Interdisciplinary Studies
At heart of The Origins of English Novel1 lies this question: how can we conceive constitution of categories in full historicity of their emergence-as they amount neither to their prior determinations nor to their eventual selffulfillment? In confronting this question I found myself pursuing a method at once dialectical and interdisciplinary: attentive to modes of negative definition by which the slowly coalesced in terms of what contemporaries c…
The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sexuality Hypothesis
Until recently, we’ve thought of the modern sex/gender system and homosexual identity as sociointellectual developments of the later nineteenth century. Over the past three decades, however, evidence has accumulated suggesting that these categories coalesced much earlier—during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (the national reference group here is England). At the beginning of this period, the customary distinction understood male and fem…
Generic Transformation and Social Change
conduct the study of this crucial literary phenomenon.' The phenomenon is crucial because it is modern. If the novel originated in early modem Europe, it should be possible to observe and describe its emergence within a historical context whose richness of detail has no parallel in earlier periods. But of course this is no coincidence: it is the rise of an unprecedented historical consciousness, and of its institutional affiliates, that has both …
Politics and Poetry in Restoration England
Sabbatai Sevi in England
Several years ago Gershom Scholem's authoritative work on the seventeenth century messianic figure Sabbatai Sevi, first published in Hebrew in 1957, appeared in a revised English translation. The importance of Scholem's work for an informed understanding of the Sabbatian movement and for the general study of religious and political movements must be acknowledged by all readers. The relevance of Sabbatai's career in the Levant to the specific hist…
Keywords
Raymond Williams' seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language. First published in 1976, and expanded in 1983, KEYWORDS reveals how the meanings of 131 words - including 'art', 'class', 'family', 'media', 'sex' and 'tradition' - were formed and subsequently altered and redefined as the historical contexts in which they were used changed. Neither a defining dictionary or glossary, KEYWOR…
The “Marxism” of Claude Levi-Strauss
Generic Transformation and Social Change
conduct the study of this crucial literary phenomenon.' The phenomenon is crucial because it is modern. If the novel originated in early modem Europe, it should be possible to observe and describe its emergence within a historical context whose richness of detail has no parallel in earlier periods. But of course this is no coincidence: it is the rise of an unprecedented historical consciousness, and of its institutional affiliates, that has both …
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
Realist Literary History
A Defense of Dialectical Method in Literary History
ion as a way of overcoming split between form, content, and context in current approaches to genre theory). Warner's version of theory simply ignores weight of evidence I adduce to argue not only abstract continuity of questions of and virtue but also concrete discontinuity of their instantiations in different periods. Nor is simply a matter of obvious differences between forms-Greek romance, twelfth-century romance, novel-with which questions of…
"I Wonder Whether Poor Miss Sally Godfrey Be Living or Dead"
The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740
The Origins of Interdisciplinary Studies
At heart of The Origins of English Novel1 lies this question: how can we conceive constitution of categories in full historicity of their emergence-as they amount neither to their prior determinations nor to their eventual selffulfillment? In confronting this question I found myself pursuing a method at once dialectical and interdisciplinary: attentive to modes of negative definition by which the slowly coalesced in terms of what contemporaries c…
Theory of the Novel
Contents and Contributors: Part One: Genre TheoryNorthrop Frye, from Anatomy of Criticism: Four EssaysE. D. Hirsch, from Validity in InterpretationClaudio Guillen, from Literature as System: Essays toward the Theory of Literary HistoryJonathan Culler, Toward a Theory of Non-Genre LiteratureMarthe Robert, from Origins of the Two: Novel as Displacement I: StructuralismWalter Benjamin, The StorytellerClaude Levi-Strauss, from Savage Mind, from Origi…
The Secret History of Domesticity
Mediation as Primal Word
This chapter argues for the importance of “mediation” by highlighting its antithetical senses—“mediation” can connote both “connection/communication” as well as “intervene/ separate.” It presents a case history of mediation that details the intricate process by which the concept of the aesthetic emerged from an explicit project: the effort to transport the epistemological posture developed by natural philosophy—one based in empirical observation,…
Theory and Practice in Historical Method
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
What Was an Early Modern Public, and How Was It Made
One argument of The Secret History of Domesticity is that there were two early modern publics, one traditional and one innovative; that the new concept of the public began to emerge when the authority of the old public, until then a matter of tacit belief, was subjected to explicit and rational analysis; and that the rationality of the new public depended on the simultaneous rise of an entirely new concept, the private. This argument responds at …
The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sexuality Hypothesis
Until recently, we’ve thought of the modern sex/gender system and homosexual identity as sociointellectual developments of the later nineteenth century. Over the past three decades, however, evidence has accumulated suggesting that these categories coalesced much earlier—during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (the national reference group here is England). At the beginning of this period, the customary distinction understood male and fem…
Reading Swift
Assembling thirty-five lectures delivered at the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift in June 2011, this new volume of Reading Swift testifies to an extraordinary spectrum of research interests in the Dean of St Patrick’s, Dublin, and his works. As in the successful earlier volumes, the essays have been grouped in eight sections: biographical aspects (W. B. Carnochan, John Irwin Fischer, Clive T. Probyn, Abigail Williams); bibliographical an…
Paradise Lost as a Secret History
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Paradise Lost , Poem of the Restoration Period
John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) is often classified as a Renaissance epic, along with the great narrative poems of Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser. However, this generic designation tells us much less about the formal nature of the poem than we learn when we contextualize it among the long English narratives with which it was contemporary: Butler's Hudibras (1663, 1664, 1678), Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684), Dryden's Absalom an…
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