and the new historicism in part took aim at the kind of literary thinking that's exemplified by the piece that i asked you to read, by andy delbanco [phonetic], which came from the new york times book review some years ago, but is also excerpted from a very good book of his, a little book, called the real american dream, which is like a short account of american literature, which you might say embodies a kind of humanistic approach for lack of a better word, a humanistic approach to the story of american literature.