The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics

by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse

Book Overview

Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who literally wrote a new culture into being. Milton's Paradise Lost marks the emergence of this new literacy. The authors show how Milton helped transform English...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520077563
• ISBN13: 9780520077560
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.