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work_2jrybysfevbopiecnsyp6jokoe	Matthew Taunton	Book reviews	2010	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1401	57	41	Review of Alan Liu, Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (Chicago: University of Alan Liu, Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database Liu's latest collection is a volume that offers an insightful and much needed digital-era revision of overview of Liu's work from 1989 to present – from the New Historicism to the Spruce Goose – Local In contrast to many essay collections amalgamating such spans of work, Liu's volume amounts, http://www.martineve.com/Publications/Martin%20Paul%20Eve%20-%20Review%20of%20Alan%20Liu,%20Local%20Transcendence:%20Essays%20on%20Postmodern%20Historicism%20and%20the%20Database%20(Chicago:%20University%20of%20Chicago%20Press)%20-%20PrePrint.pdf in the final essay, 'Escaping History', in which Liu combines historiography with the database. the early works in the collection – offering critique of, among others, the New Historicism's angst structure and content Liu explores the bounds of knowledge that so pervaded this era, this collection is Alan Liu, Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 392 pp., £14.50 (paper), £37.00 (cloth)	./cache/work_2jrybysfevbopiecnsyp6jokoe.pdf	./txt/work_2jrybysfevbopiecnsyp6jokoe.txt