Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England. Peter Erickson , Clark Hulse
and culture have been appropriated and used for enhancement of white American health and lifestyles at the same moments when the majority of American Indians today live in debilitating poverty due to the U.S. governments appropriations of their lands" (34). This may be the moment to note that Bach's prose, if not her analysis, is somewhat less elegant than Schwartz's. It is interesting how these two books transform the pedigrees they invoke, in particular New Historicism. Schwarz unsettles the relation of subversion and containment, while Bach brings a political critique and commitment that are not usually associated with someone like Stephen Greenblatt. These books appear as part of an ongoing and voluminous tradition, so that, while they do not have the advantage of inaugurating new paradigms, they bring the sophistication of a matured approach to their specific contributions.