Toward a New Historicism / / Wesley Morris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Morris, Wesley,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1972
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1397
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

Assessing major critics from Vernon Parrington to Murray Krieger, Wesley Morris points the way to a "new historicism." He outlines traditional historicist interests in American literary theory and draws from them the foundation for a vital new study of literature. As Mr. Morris shows, howe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Chapter I. Toward a Discrimination of Historicisms
• Chapter II. Literary History and Literary Criticism Literature's Dual Mode o£ Existence
• Part I. The American Historicist Tradition
• Chapter III. Vernon Louis Parrington An Argument for Historicism
• Chapter IV. American Marxian Literary Theory The Search for Critical Certainty
• Chapter V. The Creative Mind and Literary Prophecy The Critical Heritage of Van Wyck Brooks
• Part II. The Rediscovery of Historicism
• Chapter VI. John Crowe Ransom: Principles for a New Historicism
• Chapter VII. The Meeting of Opposites, I
• Chapter VIII. Roy Harvey Pearce: The Revitalizing of Historicism
• Chapter IX. The Meeting of Opposites, II
• Chapter X. Murray Krieger: The Ambition of a New Historicism
• Chapter XI. Toward a New Historicism
• Notes
• A List of Works Cited
• Index