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I ’m afraid that in my rather eighteenth-century title, “Wherein the author, etc.,” I certainly promise more than I am going to deliver. In particular, I am not going to give a proper historical account but only the merest sketch of a history. I am also not truly going to show why—in absolute terms—we can’t do without formalism. Much of my effort will go into distinguishing between two different kinds of “formalism” and considering the implications and underlying premises of each of them. I will argue that we give up a lot if we do, in fact, want to do without “formalism” in either of these senses . And I will argue this in relation to both literary and historical studies. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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