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Article: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism.(Review) (book review)
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New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. By John Brannigan. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. viii + 249 pages.
As university presses diminish production of scholarly monographs on literary criticism--as critical readings of major literary texts and authors actually scare off acquisition editors looking more and more for "cross over" projects--the production and marketing of the theory primer or handbook seems to be expanding. St. Martin's Press has aggressively pursued this end, furnishing students, through its Casebooks in Contemporary Criticism series, with many useful and high-quality critical editions of the great western texts replete with model critical ...