TY - BOOK AU - Tricomi,Albert H. TI - Reading Tudor-Stuart texts through cultural historicism SN - 0813020727 AV - PR421 .T75 1996eb U1 - 820.9/003 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Literature and history KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - Historicism KW - Littérature et histoire KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Histoire KW - 16e siècle KW - 17e siècle KW - Historicisme KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Historiography KW - English Literature KW - hilcc KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Tudors, 1485-1603 KW - Stuarts, 1603-1714 KW - 1485-1603 (Tudors) KW - Historiographie KW - 1603-1714 (Stuarts) KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-188) and index; 1. The Problem and the Project: "Being Historical" -- 2. Foucault and Utopia: Politics and New Historicism -- 3. Tropes of Surveillance in Jonson's and Shakespeare's Poetry: Decentering Traditional Historicism -- 4. The Informer in Popular Culture: A Critique of the Anecdotal Method -- 5. Cultural Foundations of Shakespeare's Problem Plays: Monitoring Sexuality -- 6. The Jacobean Problem Play: Sexuality, Surveillance, and the Critique of Culture -- 7. Affectivity and New Historicism: The Mothering Body Surveilled in The Duchess of Malfi and The Duchess of Suffolk N2 - In an assessment of the new historicism as a form of historical knowledge, Albert Tricomi moves beyond it to present what he calls new, cultural historicism. In pursuing this theme, he examines Tudor-Stuart representations of surveillance and the cultural oversight of the sexual body as revealed in Elizabethan-Jacobean drama to bring together two discourses that have not been joined before. Tricomi shows the inadequacy of an older, event-based historical criticism that excludes various forms of cultural knowledge, including metaphor and states of mind as revealed in literary texts. At the same time, he demonstrates a more robust historicism by joining functional cultural analyses to a conception of historical understanding that can recognize both events and processes. Tricomi suggests new and controversial possibilities of what historicized literary studies might be. His study will contribute to the emergence of a more extensive and vigorous cultural historicism. -- Provided by publisher UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=40248 ER -