Converse of object

• reject: Rejecting historicism it had a desire to enhance the competitiveness of German products, many of its patrons had English contacts.

Adjective modifier

• literary: Tricomi combines first-rate theoretical debate and textual analysis to explore the practical application of his suggestions for a new direction in literary historicism.

• German: In America the social sciences were long dominated by German historicism.

• cultural: The book begins with an astute assessment of the problems facing historicist practices and proposes a modified critical methodology, " cultural historicism.