To what extent does Catherine Gallagher’s “historicist aesthetics” challenge the dichotomy between ideology and aesthetics in New Historicism, and how does this impact interpretations of canonical literature?
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By affirming ideology as separate from aesthetics
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By showing aesthetic forms as complicit with, and also resistant to, dominant ideological formations
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By dismissing aesthetics as apolitical
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By restricting analysis to political content only