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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.

English literature --- Philosophy of science --- History as a science --- American literature --- Historicism --- Literature and history --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature anglaise --- Historicisme --- Littérature et histoire --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc --- Historicism. --- New Historicism. --- Theory, etc. --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature et histoire --- Théorie, etc --- Agnew, Spiro. --- American exceptionalism. --- Aristotle. --- Barthes, Roland. --- Beard, Charles. --- Bercovitch, Sacvan. --- Blumenberg, Hans. --- Cavell, Stanley. --- Columbus, Christopher. --- Constitution of the United States. --- Darwin, Charles Robert. --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Eagleton, Terry. --- Eisenhower, Dwight David. --- Enlightenment. --- Foucault, Michel. --- Frye, Northrop. --- Gallagher, Catherine. --- Greenblatt, Stephen. --- Habermas, Jürgen. --- Haymarket Riots. --- Historismus. --- Iran-Contra scandal. --- Jameson, Fredric. --- Joyce, James. --- Kennedy, Robert. --- Krieger, Murray. --- Lentricchia, Frank. --- Lotze, Herman. --- Mead, George Herbert. --- New Freedom. --- Partisan Review. --- Representations. --- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. --- Schaedelbach, Herbert. --- Torgovnick, Marianna. --- Vaihinger, Hans. --- Weimann, Robert. --- Williams, Raymond. --- affirmative action. --- arbitrary connectedness. --- chiasmus. --- civil rights movement. --- cultural history. --- cultural materialism. --- feminism. --- inversive discourse. --- mimesis. --- narrative. --- pragmatism. --- social history. --- thick description. --- English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc --- American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc