The New Historicism
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The New Historicism

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The New Historicism

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Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick descriptions" seize upon an event or anecdote--colonist John Rolfe's conversation with Pocohontas's father, a note found among Nietzsche's papers to the effect that "I have lost my umbrella"--and re-read it to reveal through the analysis of tiny particulars the motive forces controlling a whole society. Contributors: Stephen J. Greenblatt, Louis A. Montrose, Catherine Gallagher, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Gerald Graff, Jean Franco, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Frank Lentricchia, Vincent Pecora, Jane Marcus, Jon Klancher, Jonathan Arac, Hayden White, Stanley Fish, Judith Newton, Joel Fineman, John Schaffer, Richard Terdiman, Donald Pease, Brooks Thomas.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781138140219
eBook ISBN
9781317761204
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction by H. Aram Veeser
  8. 1. Towards a Poetics of Culture
  9. 2. Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture
  10. 3. Marxism and the New Historicism
  11. 4. The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction
  12. 5. English Romanticism and Cultural Production
  13. 6. The Use and Misuse of Giambattista Vico: Rhetoric, Orality, and Theories of Discourse
  14. 7. The Sense of the Past: Image, Text, and Object in the Formation of Historical Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  15. 8. The Struggle for the Cultural Heritage: Christina Stead Refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain
  16. 9. The Asylums of Antaeus: Women, War, and Madness—Is there a Feminist Fetishism?
  17. 10. History as Usual? Feminism and the “New Historicism”
  18. 11. Co-optation
  19. 12. The New Historicism and other Old-fashioned Topics
  20. 13. The Nation as Imagined Community
  21. 14. Literary Criticism and the Politics of the New Historicism
  22. 15. Is there Class in this Class?
  23. 16. Foucault’s Legacy: A New Historicism?
  24. 17. The Limits of Local Knowledge
  25. 18. The New Historicism: Political Commitment and the Postmodern Critic
  26. 19. New Historicism: A Comment
  27. Commentary: The Young and the Restless
  28. Notes on Contributors