Literature

The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics

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$60.00/£48.00
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Published:
Mar 28, 1993
1991
Pages:
278
Size:
6 x 9.25 in.
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Literature
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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.