The New Historicism

And Other Old-fashioned Topics

• Author(s): Brook Thomas,
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Pages: 254
• ISBN_13: 9780691015071
  ISBN_10: 0691015074
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Historiography , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory ,

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.