Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 306 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139226431
Content:
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. The volume provides a brief history of the practice from its Renaissance origins, offering examples of historicist work that not only demonstrate the continuing vitality of this methodology but also suggest new directions for research. Focusing on the major figures of Shakespeare and Milton, these essays provide important and concise representations of trends in the field. Designed for scholars and students of early modern English literature (1500–1700), the volume will also be of interest to students of literature more generally and to historians
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Introduction : old, new, now
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Has historicism gone too far : or, should we return to form?
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Theory and practice in historical method
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Limiting history
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The politics of Renaissance historicism : Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and More
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Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello
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The new presentism and its discontents : listening to Eastward ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue
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In great men's houses : playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history
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Medea's dilemma : politics and passion in Milton's Divorce tracts
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Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism
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"You shall be our generalless" : fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton
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Wartimes : seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives
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Afterword
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107027510
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107027510
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139226431
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