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Article: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism.(Review)
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John Brannigan. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. ix + 249 PP. $55.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.
A central theme of John Brannigan's usefully compact critical survey of new historicism and cultural materialism involves the important contributions these critical schools have made to ongoing discussions of the cultural circulation of power. Brannigan makes a convincing case that between 1980 and 1986 the "new historicism" of such American critics as Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Montrose, Stephen Orgel, and D. A. Miller emerged as a fairly consolidated tradition, possessed of its own well-defined set of concerns and problematics, ...