New Historicism: Central Texts Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around New Historicism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which book was co-authored by Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt?
Rethinking Historicism: Critical Readings in Romantic History
Practicing New Historicism
The New Historicism
The Interpretation of Cultures
Q. Louis Montrose wrote an essay called “’Shaping Fantasies’: Figurations of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture” about which of Shakespeare’s comedies?
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will
Love’s Labour’s Lost
As You Like It
Q. In which book does Stephen Greenblatt’s essay “Fiction and Friction,” about Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or, What You Will, appear?
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World
Q. Which poem by William Wordsworth was written on July 13th, the day before Bastille Day?
“I Wander Lonely as a Cloud”
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798”
“We are Seven”
“The Ruined Cottage”
Q. Which collection of essays by four New Historicist critics focuses on the Romantic period?
Rethinking Historicism: Critical Readings in Romantic History
The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation
The New Historicism
Practicing New Historicism