%0 Journal Article %T T. Tsimpouki on M. BoydenĄ¯s Predicting the Past, The Paradoxes of American Literary History %J European Journal of American Studies %D 2009 %I European Association for American Studies %R 10.4000/ejas.7631 %X Boyden, Michael. Predicting the Past, The paradoxes of American Literary History. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2009. pp. 215. In recent years Michael BoydenĄ¯s research interests have focused on literary history and canon formation as well as on multilingualism and translation in literature. Boyden has masterfully combined these threads in his new book-length study of American literary history and of the paradoxes of its institutional formation. As the title seeks to convey, Predicting the... %U http://ejas.revues.org/7631