20世纪90年代，英美文学研究再次转向历史语境。剑桥大学版的《语境中的英国文学》与这一“历史转向”息息相关，其聚焦的，不唯“文本”，更是文本所置身其间的历史“语境”。文本阐释中的多重语境、不同文类的相互影响以及学术团体的作用等三个层面印证了《语境中的英国文学》和当下英美学术风气的契合。%The last decade of the 20th century witnessed a second shift to the historically contextualized literary study in English-speaking countries. The advent of English Literature in Context, published by the Cambridge University Press in 2008, has fit perfectly and properly into this“second shift,”with its focus not only on texts themselves but on their particular historical contexts as well. This article has — by considering in turn the multiple contextual approaches to texts, the interplay of different genres, and the power of teachers and critics in literary studies —demonstrated the affiliations between some features in this textbook and certain current academic tendencies.
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