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Toward a New Historicism
By (Author) Wesley Morris
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
Social and cultural anthropology
801.95
Paperback
278
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
369g
Assessing major critics from Vernon Parrington to Murray Krieger, Wesley Morris points the way to a "new historicism." He outlines traditional historicist interests in American literary theory and draws from them the foundation for a vital new study of literature. As Mr. Morris shows, however, the new historicism moves beyond--necessarily using the