New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

by John Brannigan

New historicism and cultural materialism emerged in the early 1980s as prominent literary theories and came to represent a revival of interest in history and in historicising literature. Their proponents rejected both formalist criticism and earlier attempts to read literature in its historical context and defined new ways of thinking about literature in relation to history. This study explains the development of these theories and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices. The potential future direction for the theories is explored and the controversial debates about their validity in literary studies are discussed.

Genres: Criticism

260 pages, Paperback

First published June 22, 1998

Reviews

[tea]

Highly recommend this for any scholar interested in exploring Public History, New Historicism or Cultural Materialism. Absolute gem!

[Mohammed Galal]

I cant believe that I finally finished this book.It took me so much time 2 read it as I my reading was irregular..A very informative book..The only reason anyone would read such a book is certainly academic.Too much information,too little fun.... Modern Critical Theory and fun are two incompatible words..Anyway,glad that I got rid of it(or rather it got rid of me)..

[Sam]

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