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Brook Thomas explores the new historicism and the challenges posed to it by a postmodern world that questions the very possibility of newness. He considers new historicism's engagement with poststructuralism and locates the former within a tradition of pragmatic historiography in the United States.

English literature --- Philosophy of science --- History as a science --- American literature --- Historicism --- Literature and history --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature anglaise --- Historicisme --- Littérature et histoire --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc --- Historicism. --- New Historicism. --- Theory, etc. --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature et histoire --- Théorie, etc --- Agnew, Spiro. --- American exceptionalism. --- Aristotle. --- Barthes, Roland. --- Beard, Charles. --- Bercovitch, Sacvan. --- Blumenberg, Hans. --- Cavell, Stanley. --- Columbus, Christopher. --- Constitution of the United States. --- Darwin, Charles Robert. --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Eagleton, Terry. --- Eisenhower, Dwight David. --- Enlightenment. --- Foucault, Michel. --- Frye, Northrop. --- Gallagher, Catherine. --- Greenblatt, Stephen. --- Habermas, Jürgen. --- Haymarket Riots. --- Historismus. --- Iran-Contra scandal. --- Jameson, Fredric. --- Joyce, James. --- Kennedy, Robert. --- Krieger, Murray. --- Lentricchia, Frank. --- Lotze, Herman. --- Mead, George Herbert. --- New Freedom. --- Partisan Review. --- Representations. --- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. --- Schaedelbach, Herbert. --- Torgovnick, Marianna. --- Vaihinger, Hans. --- Weimann, Robert. --- Williams, Raymond. --- affirmative action. --- arbitrary connectedness. --- chiasmus. --- civil rights movement. --- cultural history. --- cultural materialism. --- feminism. --- inversive discourse. --- mimesis. --- narrative. --- pragmatism. --- social history. --- thick description. --- English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc --- American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

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As questions of citizenship generate new debates for this generation of Americans, Brook Thomas argues for revitalizing the role of literature in civic education. Thomas defines civic myths as compelling stories about national origin, membership, and values that are generated by conflicts within the concept of citizenship itself. Selected works of literature, he claims, work on these myths by challenging their terms at the same time that they work with them by relying on the power of narrative to produce compelling new stories.Civic Myths consists of four case stud

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"In this groundbreaking new study, author Brook Thomas argues that literary analysis can enhance our historical understanding of race and Reconstruction. The standard view that Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877 is a retrospective construction. Works of literature provide the perspective of those who continued to see possibilities for its renewal well past 1877. Historians have long tried to reconcile social history's emphasis on the local with political history's emphasis on the national. Literature creates national political allegories while focusing on events in a particular locale. Moreover, the debate over Reconstruction was a debate about state legitimacy as well as specific laws. It was a question of foundational myths as well as foundational legal principles. Literature's political allegories allow us to recreate those debates rather than view the end of Reconstruction as a foregone conclusion. Because many of the issues raised by Reconstruction remain unresolved, those debates continue into the present. Chapters treat how the racial issues raised by Reconstruction are interwoven with debates over state v. national authority, efforts to combat terrorism (the KKK), the paternalism of welfare, economic expansion, and the question of who should rightly inherit the nation's past. Thomas examines authors who opposed Reconstruction, authors who supported it, and authors who struggled with mixed feelings. This exciting text will set the standard in literary historical studies for decades to come"--

HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. --- Race relations in literature. --- Literature and society --- Politics and literature --- American literature --- History --- History and criticism.

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