Rethinking historicism from Shakespeare to Milton / edited by Ann Baynes Coiro, Thomas Fulton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coiro, Ann Baynes, 1951- editor.

Fulton, Thomas (Thomas Chandler), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical criticism (Literature).

New Historicism.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reading literary texts in their historical contexts has been the dominant form of interpretation in literary criticism for the past thirty years. This collection of essays reflects on the origins of historicism and its present usefulness as a mode of literary analysis, its limitations and its future. The volume provides a brief history of the practice from its Renaissance origins, offering examples of historicist work that not only demonstrate the continuing vitality of this methodology but also suggest new directions for research. Focusing on the major figures of Shakespeare and Milton, these essays provide important and concise representations of trends in the field. Designed for scholars and students of early modern English literature (1500-1700), the volume will also be of interest to students of literature more generally and to historians.

Contents:

Introduction : old, new, now / Ann Baynes Coiro and Thomas Fulton

Has historicism gone too far : or, should we return to form? / Andrew Hadfield

Theory and practice in historical method / Michael McKeon

Limiting history / Marshall Grossman

The politics of Renaissance historicism : Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and More / Thomas Fulton

Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello / Heather Hirschfeld

The new presentism and its discontents : listening to Eastward ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue / Paul Stevens

In great men's houses : playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history / Lawrence Manley

Medea's dilemma : politics and passion in Milton's Divorce tracts / Sharon Achinstein

Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism / Martin Dzelzainis

"You shall be our generalless" : fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton / Laura Knoppers

Wartimes : seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives / Erin Murphy

Afterword / Nigel Smith.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88943-5

1-139-57973-8

1-139-57363-2

1-139-56935-X

1-139-57116-8

1-139-57291-1

1-139-22643-6

1-283-71633-X

1-139-57025-0

OCLC:

813844836