In 1990, this work was published which, following a colloquium bringing together more than two hundred listeners, put an end to the conflict between the proponents of a traditional literary history, dried up by rituals, and the supporters of structuralist-inspired criticism, forgetful of the diachronic dimension of the facts they studied. This colloquium, this work made an event. They immediately engaged the very respectable Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France to do the same, in a different direction, as one might expect. This volume is virtually out of print, so much so that Armand Colin editions have stopped distributing it in bookstores for a year. Faced with such a deficiency, the authors had no choice but to take back their property and offer it themselves to readers, notably from Fabula. Return to literary history or return on literary history enriched by the human sciences and new methods? This is the stake of this debate which brings together literary historians here. Since Lanson, defining literary history as a discipline in its own right, numerous questions-answers from the angle of successive approaches and studies: genetic criticism, marginalization of certain texts, complexity of relationships between literary texts and new media... Also discussed are the problem of periodization, that of new tools through bibliometrics and computing, the importance of studying literary institutions, the history of readings and the interplay of diverse cultures, and finally the way in which literary history can define itself today in its relations with history. CR Literary history today. Under the direction of Béhar, Henri & Fayolle, Roger - Persée

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