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...
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Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- War times : seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives / Erin Murphy.