For almost twenty years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In Practicing the New Historici

Following Clifford Geertz and other cultural anthropologists, the New Historicist critics have evolved a method for describing culture in action. Their "thick d

Essays on English Renaissance culture make a major contribution to the debate on historical method.

Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. He considers new

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