This book presents advanced research by people working in the field of a critical theory of literature which sets its work in the prevailing political and historical context and applies it to the re-reading of literary and cultural texts. Included in the topics covered in this volume, one of a series, are the historical ground between "Richard II" and "Henry V", poetics versus materialism in the Renaissance and the place of AIDS and plagues in history.
- ISBN10 0719035120
- ISBN13 9780719035128
- Publish Date 12 September 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 May 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English