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<p>This volume, growing out of the celebrated turn toward history in literary criticism, showcases some of the best new historical work being done today in textual theory, literary history, and cultural criticism. The collection brings together for the first time key representativesfrom various schools of historicist scholarship, including leading critics whose work has helped define new historicism. The essays illuminate literary periods ranging from Anglo-Saxon to postmodern, a variety of literary texts that includes <i>The Siege of Thebes</i>, <i>Macbeth</i>, <i>The Jazz Singer</i>, and <i>The Chosen Place, the Timeless People</i>, and central issues that have marked new historicism: power, ideology, textuality, othering, marginality, exile, and liberation.</p> <p>The contributors are Janet Aikins, Lawrence Buell, Ralph Cohen, Margaret Ezell, Stephen Greenblatt, Terence Hoagwood, Jerome McGann, Robert Newman, Katherine O'Keeffe, Lee Patterson, Michael Rogin, Edward Said, and Hortense Spillers. The editors' introduction situates the various essays within contemporary criticism and explores the multiple, contestatory issues at stake within the historicist enterprise.</p>

Author

Jeffrey N. Cox; Larry J. Reynolds; Larry John Reynolds

Publisher

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691015460

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History