Critical Summery of Journals In New Historicism

John Brannigan writes in New Historicism and Cultural Materialism that "Greenblatt coined the phrase [new historicism] in a special edition of the journal Genre which he edited in 1982" (60); however, "most critics and anthologists of the new historicism cite the year 1980 as the beginning of new historicism as a theory and critical practice" (56). ................
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