Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton

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Summary

This volume explores the history and practice of historicism and its present usefulness for literary criticism, its limitations, and its future.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Historicism and Its Discontents
Has historicism gone too far: or, should we return to form?
Theory and practice in historical method
Limiting history
Historicism and Theology
The politics of Renaissance historicism: Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and more
Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello
Dramatic Histories
The new presentism and its discontents: listening to Eastward Ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue
In great men's houses: playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history
Milton and the Problems of History
Medea's dilemma: politics and passion in Milton's divorce tracts
Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism
Gendering Historicism
'You shall be our generalless': fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton
War-times: seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives
Afterword
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