Description
To think critically about disciplines--as rich intellectual traditions and supple devices for producing new knowledge rather than as restraining orders and fusty conventions--requires not only uncommon discrimination but also a good measure of contrarian brilliance. Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siecle fits that bill remarkably. The essays collected here will serve to remind readers where our disciplines came from and why they remain, on balance, good things to think with. -- Michael Berube
About the Author
Amanda Anderson is Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Powers of Distance (Princeton) and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces. Joseph Valente is Associate Professor of English, Critical Theory, and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Draculo's Crypt and James Joyce and the Problem of Justice and the editor of Quare Joyce.
Reviews
"To think critically about disciplines-as rich intellectual traditions and supple devices for producing new knowledge rather than as restraining orders and fusty conventions-requires not only uncommon discrimination but also a good measure of contrarian brilliance. Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siecle fits that bill remarkably. The essays collected here will serve to remind readers where our disciplines came from and why they remain, on balance, good things to think with."-Michael Berube
Book Information
ISBN 9780691089621
Author Amanda Anderson
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 510g