Rethinking historicism from Shakespeare to Milton
Reading literary texts in their historical contexts has been the dominant form of interpretation in literary criticism for the past thirty years. This collection of essays reflects on the origins of historicism and its present usefulness as a mode of literary analysis, its limitations and its future...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : old, new, now Ann Baynes Coiro and Thomas Fulton Has historicism gone too far : or, should we return to form? Andrew Hadfield Theory and practice in historical method Michael McKeon Limiting history Marshall Grossman <<The>> politics of Renaissance historicism : Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and More Thomas Fulton Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello Heather Hirschfeld <<The>> new presentism and its discontents : listening to Eastward ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue Paul Stevens In great men's houses : playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history Lawrence Manley Medea's dilemma : politics and passion in Milton's Divorce tracts Sharon Achinstein Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism Martin Dzelzainis "You shall be our generalless" : fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton Laura Knoppers Wartimes : seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives Erin Murphy Afterword Nigel Smith