The New Historicism by Judith Newton, Jonathan Arac, Vincent Pecora, Richard Terdiman, Gerald Graff, Jean Franco, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Frank Lentricchia, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Jon Klancher, Donald Pease, Brooks Thomas, Hayden White, H. Aram Veeser, John Schaffer, Catherine Gallagher, Jane Marcus, Stephen Greenblatt, Joel Fineman, Louis A. Montrose, Stanley Fish

The New Historicism

Judith Newton, Jonathan Arac, Vincent Pecora, Richard Terdiman, Gerald Graff, Jean Franco, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Frank Lentricchia, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Jon Klancher, Donald Pease, Brooks Thomas, Hayden White, H. Aram Veeser, John Schaffer, Catherine Gallagher, Jane Marcus, Stephen Greenblatt, Joel Fineman, Louis A. Montrose, Stanley Fish

336 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick descriptions" seize upon an event or anecdote--colonist John Rolfe's conversation with P...

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