Is Literary History Possible [Paperback]

Profoundly searching, yet written with grace and lucidity. A distinguished historian and critic illuminates and answers one of the major problems of literary study in a work that will become and remain a classic. -W. Jackson Bate. Perkins writes clearly and concisely. Like Ren? Wellek and M. H. Abrams, he has an admirable gift for making clear the underlying assumptions of many different writers. -Comparative Literature.