Critical conditions : regarding the historical moment / edited and with a foreword by Michael Hays.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hays, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 152 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A significant, masterfully executed contribution to the debate surrounding the "New Historicism."

Contents:

Contents; Foreword: The Scene and the Unseen of the Critic's Discourse; 1. Notes Toward a Politics of ""American"" Criticism; 2. Theory, Criticism, Dissent: Toward a Sociology of Literary Knowledge; 3. Critical Change and the Collective Archive; 4. Irreconcilable Differences: Kant, Hegel, and the ""Idea"" of Critical History; 5. Hamlet, Little Doritt, and the History of Character; 6. Hobbesian Fear: Richardson, de Man, Rousseau, and Burke; 7. Us and Them: On the Philosophical Bases of Political Criticism; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8413-8

OCLC:

476093029