In this study, John Brannigan explains the development of new historicism and cultural materialism and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices. Exemplary readings of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Yeats' Easter 1916 serve to show and criticize the new historicist and cultural materialist interpretative strategies. Brannigan explores the potential future of the theories and the debates surrounding their controversial position in ...
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In this study, John Brannigan explains the development of new historicism and cultural materialism and demonstrates both their uses and weaknesses as critical practices. Exemplary readings of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Yeats' Easter 1916 serve to show and criticize the new historicist and cultural materialist interpretative strategies. Brannigan explores the potential future of the theories and the debates surrounding their controversial position in literary studies.
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The subject of my English literature Ph.D. dissertation is related to New Historicism. I wish I could have come across Brannigan's book earlier. No text like this was able to answer my questions so well. While reading the book, you feel you can easily grasp all those difficult New Historicist, Cultural Materialist, and more importantly, Foucauldian arguments. Unlike what you may find in other volumes on New Historicism (e.g. Pieters's Moments of Negotiation), the author here proves very successful.
