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Important People in New Historicism |
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Michel Foucault |
A forbearer to the New Historicist literary movement Michel Foucault was a philosopher, psychologist, and social commentator. While he was not a literary critic by profession, he was key in presenting the idea that an author is not able to entirely separate his work from the time in which he wrote. Everything written was a result of the events in which that author lived. |
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Steven Greenblatt |
The most influential critic to work with this theory, Steven Greenblatt is most famous, in literary circles, for his New Historicists analysis on Renaissance literature.
Selected Works: Hamlet in Purgatory (2001); Co-gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2000); Practicing New Historicism (with Catherine Gallagher, 2000); Gen. ed. Norton Shakespeare (1997); ed. New World Encounters (1993); ed. Redrawing the Boundaries (1992); Marvelous Possessions (1991); Learning to Curse (1990); Shakespearean Negotiations (1988); Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980).
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Alan Liu |
Dr. Liu is one
of today's most prolific New Historicism critics. Currently a professor at
the University of California Santa Barbara, he has published numerous
detailed studies on the importance of history and culture to literature.
His critical works focus on the Romantic literary period, most
specifically, the works of William Wordsworth. He is also in charge of the
web project Voice of the Shuttle.
Selected Books and Essays on New Historicism:
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