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History of a History: A Study in Cooperative Scholarship
Ist Teil von
PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1974-05, Vol.89 (3), p.602-616
Ort / Verlag
New York, etc: Modern Language Association of America
Erscheinungsjahr
1974
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
From its founding in 1921, the American Literature Group, MLA, was committed to a history of American literature as expression of an evolving American culture. From Parrington's determinism and Foerster's humanism, it developed the theory that our culture was transplanted mainly from Western Europe, but was indigenous as shaped by a moving frontier. In 1938, a committee was appointed to plan a cooperative literary history, but by 1940 conservative elements cautioned delay. The project then split. The Group undertook long-term fact-finding while historical reinterpretation was taken over by fifty-five historians and critics, selected and guided by a self-appointed editorial board of four: Spiller, Thorp, Johnson, Canby. Literary History of the United States was first published in 1948 and is now in its fourth edition. This article reconstructs the theory and history of this unique experiment in cooperative scholarship from documents in the Universities of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.