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Brannigan, John

New historicism and cultural materialism/ by John Brannigan - 1st ed. - New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017 - ix, 249 pages ; 23 cm. - Transitions (St. Martin's Press) .

Includes index and bibliography

Introduction: Literature in History
Literature and History
What is New Historicism?
What is Cultural Materialism? The Uses and Applications of New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
Part I: The Turn to History
Key Contexts and Theorists
New Historicism: Representations of History and Power
Cultural Poetics: After the New Historicism
Cultural Materialism: Literature and Dissident Politics
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Today

Part II: Applications and Readings "On the Edge of a Black and Incomprehensible Frenzy:" A New Historicist Reading of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Producing the Subject: A New Historicist Reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-paper
Cultural Materialism and Reading Dissidence in(to) the Poetry of Alfred Tennyson
"I Write It Out in a Verse:" Power, History and Colonialism in W.B. Yeats' Easter 1916
Part III: Afterwords

ISBN: 9781137611925

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Criticism
Historicism
Materialism in literature
Cultural materialism

Dewey Class. No.: 801.95 / BRN