Papers presented to a NEH-sponsored conference held at Georgetown University on April 1-3, 1987. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Literature or metaliterature? : thoughts on traditional literary study - Donald Greene -- - Doing without theory : a defense of cultural history - Morris R. Brownell -- - Johnson's voluntary agents - Richard B. Schwartz -- - Historical criticism, hypotheses, and eighteenth-century studies : the case for induction and neutral knowledge - Howard D. Weinbrot -- - The discourses of criticism and the discourses of history in the Restoration and early eighteenth century - Maximillian Novak -- - The novel and the contexts of discourse - J. Paul Hunter -- - Scholarly texts : an unapologetic defense - John H. Middendorf -- - Reading eighteenth-century plays - Shirley Strum Kenny -- - Causes and consequences in historical scholarship - Gwin J. Kolb