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9781107027510

Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton

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  • ISBN13:

    9781107027510

  • ISBN10:

    1107027519

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-10-31
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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This volume explores the history and practice of historicism and its present usefulness for literary criticism, its limitations, and its future.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Historicism and Its Discontents
Has historicism gone too far: or, should we return to form?
Theory and practice in historical method
Limiting history
Historicism and Theology
The politics of Renaissance historicism: Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and more
Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello
Dramatic Histories
The new presentism and its discontents: listening to Eastward Ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue
In great men's houses: playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history
Milton and the Problems of History
Medea's dilemma: politics and passion in Milton's divorce tracts
Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism
Gendering Historicism
'You shall be our generalless': fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton
War-times: seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives
Afterword
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