The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics Brook Thomas

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The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics by Brook Thomas

Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. He considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United States.

The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics Reviews

[Thomas] usefully connects the new historicists with earlier American pragmatists, looks closely at the work of Walter Benn Michaels and Stephen Greenblatt, [and has] interesting things to say about the way the writing of Walter Benjamin complicates and furthers our idea of history.---Michael Wood, The Times Literary Supplement
[Thomas's] knowledge of German philosophical tradition provides a rewarding framework for an understanding of new historicist practice. . . . An essential book for students of the subject.---Eugene Goodheart, CLIO
Thomas is especially interesting when he reaches beyond the language of critical discourse to treat larger issues like the battle over great books' and the current blaming of liberals for the decline in Western values.---Ted Widmer, The Boston Phoenix Literary Section

About Brook Thomas

Brook Thomas is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.

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CIN0691068933VG

ISBN 13

9780691068930

ISBN 10

0691068933

Title

The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics by Brook Thomas

Author

Brook Thomas

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year published

19910909

Number of pages

278

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