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

The New Historicism

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

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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