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Article: The New Historicism Reader.
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- March 22, 1996
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In the collection The New Historicism Reader, H. Aram Veeser offers a sequel to his The New Historicism (1989). Different from the previous, theoretically oriented volume on the subject, The New Historicism Reader presents a selection of New Historicist essays engaged in practice. We do not find here a group of essays discussing the New Historicism from a theoretical perspective, but a group of scholars doing New Historicism. The stated purpose of Veeser's collection is to present readers with "the furthest reaches of New Historicist scholarship" (v). Veeser's language indicates that there have been major developments in the field since his previous collection. Although this ...