The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics |
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| Author:
| Thomas, Brook |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-01507-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1993 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $94.99 |
Book Description:
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Explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. This title considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United States.
Explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. This title considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United States.