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See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324565522 New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Chapter · April 2018 DOI: 10.1002/9781118958933.ch19 CITATION 1 READS 6,964 1 author: Neema Parvini Academic Agency 14 PUBLICATIONS 25 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE All content following this page was uploaded by Neema Parvini on 19 February 2019. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. A Companion to Literary Theory, First Edition. Edited by David H. Richter. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Published 2018 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 19 Broadly speaking, new historicism and cultural materialism mark a shift in the discipline of English literature from a period in which the primary focus of criticism was the literary text to one in which the primary focus has been historical context. Although there had always been literary history, especially in studies of William Shakespeare’s works and liter- ature from the early modern period, new historicists and cultural materialists distinguished themselves by bringing a diverse range of influences from anthropology, Marxism, theory of history, and continental philosophy to bear on their work to consider contextual questions from fresh new perspectives. New historicism is chiefly an American (and specifically beginning at Berkeley) development in the study of early modern literature, which came to prominence in the early 1980s following the publication of Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self‐Fashioning (1980). Cultural materialism, meanwhile, also initially focused on the early modern period, is chiefly a British development which came to prominence with the publication of Jonathan Dollimore’s Radical Tragedy (1984) and the collection of essays that Dollimore edited with Alan Sinfield, Political Shakespeare (1985). Because the two approaches emerged in the same area of the discipline, at roughly the same time—and in constant dialogue, often taking the opposite sides of debates—new historicism and cultural materialism have frequently been compared and contrasted (see Dollimore 1990; Felperin 1990), considered side by side (see Parvini 2012b: Brannigan 1998), or viewed as two sides of the same coin (see Hawthorn 1996; Bradshaw 1993; Vickers 1993; Levin 1990; Pechter 1987). In devel- oping an understanding of either of them, it is important not to be bound by the artificial terms of this dichotomy, and to maintain a keen sense of their distinct geneses. Therefore, I will consider new historicism and cultural materialism in separate sections. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Neema Parvini 0003304307.INDD 238 8/28/2017 3:15:03 PM UNCORRECTED PROOFS Download 0.56 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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