3. History-as-myth being an alternative to historical materialism or history-as-source-for-social criticism.
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4. The specific historical myth New Critics were invested in was of course the Lost Cause (i.e. Confederate nostalgia).
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5. Not surprising that overlap between New Critics and authors of I'll Take My Stand (manifesto of Southern Agrarians)
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6. But myth of Lost Cause is only local, regional variation of largest meta-myth in West: Paradise Lost & exile from Eden.
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7. When the New Critics searched texts for evidence of either organic coherence or loss of unity, they were enacting Paradise Lost myth.
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8. Precisely because they were invested in history-as-myth, New Critics were hostile to other forms of historical knowledge (as competitors)
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9.More broadly: New Criticism is one example (of several) of how in secularizing America theology was reborn as literary criticism.
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