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Title

Rethinking historicism from Shakespeare to Milton / [edited by] Ann Baynes Coiro, Thomas Fulton.

Publication

Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Coiro, Ann Baynes, 1951-
• Fulton, Thomas (Thomas Chandler)

Description

xiii, 306p.; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subject

• Historical criticism (Literature)
• New Historicism
• English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Call Number

JFE 13-436

ISBN

• 9781107027510
• 1107027519

LCCN

2012012616

OCLC

784125188

Title

Rethinking historicism from Shakespeare to Milton / [edited by] Ann Baynes Coiro, Thomas Fulton.

Imprint

Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

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Added Author

Coiro, Ann Baynes, 1951-

Fulton, Thomas (Thomas Chandler)

Research Call Number

JFE 13-436