Peak Freedgood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411768 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cannon Schmitt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 651-655 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150319000275 |
| OpenAlex | W4254855817 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The allusion in my title, of course, is to Marion King Hubbert's theory of “peak oil,” that moment in history when petroleum production reaches maximum output and then begins to decline. But Peak Freedgood is not Time's fool. It is an ever-fixèd mark: a quality or an intensity rather than a quantity; a stretch of Elaine Freedgood's work in which she is most like herself—when Elaineness production reaches maximum output. Such passages can be encountered in every book and article she's ever published, but the one I'll start with appears in a 2010 New Literary History essay called “Fictional Settlements” focused on Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian Crusoes (1852)
Allusion · Art · Economics · Literature · Production (economics · American and British Literature Analysis · History · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |