Practicing New Historicism - Hardcover

Gallagher, Catherine; Greenblatt, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226279340 ISBN 13: 9780226279343

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2000

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Book by Gallagher Catherine Greenblatt Stephen

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For almost 20 years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In "Practicing New Historicism", two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and far-reaching effects. In lucid and jargon-free prose, Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt focus on five central aspects of new historicism: recurrent use of anecdotes, preoccupation with the nature of representations, fascination with the history of the body, sharp focus on neglected details, and skeptical analysis of ideology. Arguing that new historicism has always been more a passionately engaged practice of questioning and analysis than an abstract theory, Gallagher and Greenblatt demonstrate this practice in a series of characteristicaly dazzling readings of works ranging from paintings by Joos van Gent and Paolo Uccello to "Hamlet" and "Great Expectations". By juxtaposing analyses of Renaissance and 19th-century topics, the authors uncover a number of unexpected contrasts and connections between the two periods. Are aspects of the dispute over the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist detectable in British political economists' hostility to the potato? How does Pip's isolation in "Great Expectations" shed light on Hamlet's doubt? Offering not only an insider's view of new historicism, but also a lively dialogue between a Renaissance scholar and Victorianist, "Practising New Historicism" is an illuminating and unpredictable performance by two of America's most respected literary scholars.

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"Gallagher and Greenblatt offer a brilliant introduction to new historicism. In their hands, difficult ideas become coherent and accessible."-Choice

For decades, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In this dazzling, seminal volume, two of the discipline's most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and far-reaching effects.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0226279340
• ISBN 13: 9780226279343
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260