Reading Tudor-Stuart Texts Through Cultural Historicism |
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| Author:
| Tricomi, Albert H. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8130-1435-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1996 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Florida
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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In an assessment of the new historicism as a form of historical knowledge, Albert Tricomi moves beyond it to present what he calls new cultural historicism. In pursuing this theme, he examines Tudor-Stuart representations of surveillance and the cultural oversight of the sexual body as revealed in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama to bring together two discourses that have not been joined before. nbsp; Tricomi shows the inadequacy of an older, event-based historical...
More DescriptionIn an assessment of the new historicism as a form of historical knowledge, Albert Tricomi moves beyond it to present what he calls new cultural historicism. In pursuing this theme, he examines Tudor-Stuart representations of surveillance and the cultural oversight of the sexual body as revealed in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama to bring together two discourses that have not been joined before.
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Tricomi shows the inadequacy of an older, event-based historical criticism that excludes various forms of cultural knowledge, including metaphor and states of mind as revealed in literary texts. At the same time, he demonstrates a more robust historicism by joining functional cultural analyses to a conception of historical understanding that can recognize both events and processes.
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Tricomi suggests new and controversial possibilities of what historicized literary studies might be.nbsp; His study will contribute to the emergence of a more extensive and vigorous cultural historicism.