The ‘linguistic turn’ and Michel Foucault

Core Readings:

Susan A. Crane, 'Language, Literary Studies, and Historical Thought', in Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maze ed., A Companion to Western Historical Thought (2002), pp. 319-336.

Michel Foucault, 'We other Victorians', The History of Sexuality. Volume 1. An Introduction, Introduction.Michel, Foucault, The Subject and Power, in Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, ed. by H. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow, (1983)pp. 208–226. (https://foucault.info/documents/foucault.power/)

Further Readings:

Brown, Callum G., Postmodernism for Historians (2013)

Clark, Elizabeth A., History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn (2004)

Canning, Kathleen, Feminist History after the Linguistic Turn: Historicizing Discourse and Experience

Signs 19, No. 2 (Winter, 1994), pp. 368-404.

Downing, Lisa, A Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (2008).

Gutting, Gary, Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2005)

Taylor, Chloe,, Routledge Guidebook to Foucault's The History of Sexuality (2016)