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Book SynopsisAssessing 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, however, the new historicism moves beyond--necessarily using the
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*Chapter I. Toward a Discrimination of Historicisms, pg. 1*Chapter II. Literary History and Literary Criticism Literature's Dual Mode oGBP Existence, pg. 14*Chapter III. Vernon Louis Parrington An Argument for Historicism, pg. 35*Chapter IV. American Marxian Literary Theory The Search for Critical Certainty, pg. 52*Chapter V. The Creative Mind and Literary Prophecy The Critical Heritage of Van Wyck Brooks, pg. 74*Chapter VI. John Crowe Ransom: Principles for a New Historicism, pg. 105*Chapter VII. The Meeting of Opposites, I, pg. 122*Chapter VIII. Roy Harvey Pearce: The Revitalizing of Historicism, pg. 145*Chapter IX. The Meeting of Opposites, II, pg. 167*Chapter X. Murray Krieger: The Ambition of a New Historicism, pg. 187*Chapter XI. Toward a New Historicism, pg. 210*Notes, pg. 217*A List of Works Cited, pg. 241*Index, pg. 257
