Historicism Once More: Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar

by Roy Harvey Pearce

Book Overview

A collection of some of Pearce's best-known essays on historical criticism in which he suggests a way of going beyond positivist historiography and formalist explication de texie toward a criticism which vitally engages the reader in what he reads and puts him m a position of judging himself and his culture, past and present. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691061556
• ISBN13: 9780691061559
• Release Date: June 1969
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.