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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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Author:   Harold Veeser
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138140219

ISBN 10:   113814021
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   22 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Towards a Poetics of Culture, Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 2 Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture, Louis A. Montrose; Chapter 3 Marxism and The New Historicism, Catherine Gallagher; Chapter 4 The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction, Joel Fineman; Chapter 5 English Romanticism and Cultural Production, Jon Klancher; Chapter 6 The Use and Misuse of Giambattista Vico: Rhetoric, Orality, and Theories of Discourse, John D. Schaeffer; Chapter 7 The Sense of the Past: Image, Text, and Object in the Formation of Historical Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Stephen Bann; Chapter 8 The Struggle for the Cultural Heritage: Christina Stead Refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, Jonathan Arac; Chapter 9 The Asylums of Antaeus: Women, War, and Madness—Is there a Feminist Fetishism?, Jane Marcus; Chapter 10 History as Usual? Feminism and the “New Historicism”, Judith Lowder Newton; Chapter 11 Co-optation, Gerald Graff; Chapter 12 The New Historicism and other Old-fashioned Topics, Brook Thomas; Chapter 13 The Nation as Imagined Community, Jean Franco; Chapter 14 Literary Criticism and the Politics of the New Historicism, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Chapter 15 Is there Class in this Class?, Richard Terdiman; Chapter 16 Foucault’s Legacy—A New Historicism?, Frank Lentricchia; Chapter 17 The Limits of Local Knowledge, Vincent P. Pecora; Chapter 18 The New Historicism: Political Commitment and the Postmodern Critic, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Chapter 19 New Historicism: A Comment, Hayden White; commentary Commentary: The Young and the Restless, Stanley Fish;

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