| Description |
ix, 249 pages ; 23 cm |
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Transitions |
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Transitions (St. Martin's Press)
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| Contents |
Introduction: Literature in History -- Pt. I. The Turn to History. 1. Key Contexts and Theorists --Interchapter: New Historicism, Cultural Poetics and Cultural Materialism. 2. New Historicism: Representations of History and Power. 3. Cultural Poetics: After the New Historicism? 4. Cultural Materialism: Literature and Dissident Politics. 5. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Today -- Pt. II. Applications and Readings -- Interchapter: Applications and Readings of New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. 6. 'On the Edge of a Black and Incomprehensible Frenzy': A New Historicist Reading of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. 7. Producing the Subject: A New Historicist Reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-paper'. 8. Cultural Materialism and Reading Dissidence in(to) the Poetry of Alfred Tennyson. 9. 'I Write It Out in a Verse': Power, History and Colonialism in W.B. Yeats's 'Easter 1916' -- Pt. III. Afterwords -- Interchapter: Afterwords |
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10. After History: Textuality and Historicity in the New Historicism. 11. The Importance of Not Concluding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-242) and index |
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Criticism.
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Historicism.
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Materialism in literature.
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New Historicism.
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| LC no. |
97052610 |
| ISBN |
0312213883 (cloth) |
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0312213891 (paper) |
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0333687809 (hbk. - Macmillan) |
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0333687817 (paperback- Macmillan) |
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