The New Historicism: And Other Old-fashioned Topics
- ISBN-10
- 0691015074
- ISBN-13
- 9780691015071
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Author
- Brook Thomas
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.
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