Reading Tudor-Stuart Texts Through Cultural Historicism.

Tricomi, Albert H.

ISBN 10: 0813014352 / ISBN 13: 9780813014357

Editore: University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1996

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xii, 201 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover binding in new condition. Unclipped dustjacket in new condition; protected in archival mylar. First edition. Previous owner's name neatly on the rear endpaper. From the collection of Louis Marder, Shakespeare historian and collector of books by, on or referring to William Shakespeare. Size: Octavo (8vo). Codice articolo 013466

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Titolo: Reading Tudor-Stuart Texts Through Cultural ...

Casa editrice: University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Data di pubblicazione: 1996

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Near fine condition

Condizione sovraccoperta: Near fine condition (DJ)

Edizione: First Edition.

Tipologia articolo: Book

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Riassunto:

In an assessment of the new historicism as a form of historical knowledge, Albert Tricomi moves beyond it to present what he calls new cultural historicism. In pursuing this theme, he examines Tudor-Stuart representations of surveillance and the cultural oversight of the sexual body as revealed in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama to bring together two discourses that have not been joined before.   Tricomi shows the inadequacy of an older, event-based historical criticism that excludes various forms of cultural knowledge, including metaphor and states of mind as revealed in literary texts. At the same time, he demonstrates a more robust historicism by joining functional cultural analyses to a conception of historical understanding that can recognize both events and processes.   Tricomi suggests new and controversial possibilities of what historicized literary studies might be.  His study will contribute to the emergence of a more extensive and vigorous cultural historicism.

L'autore:

Albert H. Tricomi is professor of English and vice provost for undergraduate studies at Binghamton University, SUNY,  and author or editor of numerous articles and books, including Anticourt Drama in England, 1603-1642; "Alfrede or Right Reinthron'd": A Translation of Drury's "Alvredus sive Alfredus," a Critical Edition; and Early Drama to 1600.