The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics »

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.

Ted Widmer - The Boston Phoenix Literary Section

Thomas is especially interesting when he reaches beyond the language of critical discourse to treat larger issues like the battle over "great books' and the current blaming of liberals for the decline in Western values.