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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics
Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Fair Warning
Chapter 2. The New Historicism in a Postmodern Age
Chapter 3. A Postmodern Modernity?
Chapter 4. The Uses and Abuses of a Pragmatic Past
Chapter 5. Walter Benn Michaels and Cultural Poetics: Where's the Difference?
Chapter 6. Literature: Work or Play?
Chapter 7. Stephen Greenblatt and the Limits of Mimesis for Historical Criticism
Notes
Index
Description:
Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. He considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United States