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Article: New Literary Histories: New Historicism and Contemporary Criticism.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
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- January 1, 2000
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New Literary Histories: New Historicism and Contemporary Criticism.
By Claire Colebrook. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.
1997. viii +248 pp. [pound]12.99.
It is the melancholy fate of all historicisms to be swallowed up by history. New Historicism (ah, that intemperate 'new') reaches the age of consent this year if dated from the publication of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning in 1980. Origins do have their uses when considering a critical approach so inimical to an exercise in historical abstraction. As Claire Colebrook describes it here, accredited New Historicists are remarkably shy of any theoretical posture, declaration, ...