This volume, growing out of the celebrated turn toward history in literary criticism, showcases some of the best new historical work being done today in textual theory, literary history, and cultural criticism. The collection brings together for the first time key representativesfrom various schools of historicist scholarship, including leading critics whose work has helped define new historicism. The essays illuminate literary periods ranging from Anglo-Saxon to postmodern, a variety of literary texts that includes The Siege of Thebes, Macbeth, The Jazz Singer, and The Chosen Place, the Timeless People, and central issues that have marked new historicism: power, ideology, textuality, othering, marginality, exile, and liberation.

The contributors are Janet Aikins, Lawrence Buell, Ralph Cohen, Margaret Ezell, Stephen Greenblatt, Terence Hoagwood, Jerome McGann, Robert Newman, Katherine O'Keeffe, Lee Patterson, Michael Rogin, Edward Said, and Hortense Spillers. The editors' introduction situates the various essays within contemporary criticism and explores the multiple, contestatory issues at stake within the historicist enterprise.

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Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2021

Print ISBN

9780691015460, 9780691069906

eBook ISBN

9780691233369

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

North American Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Historicist Enterprise - Jeffrey N. Cox and Larry J. Reynolds
Chapter One: Generating Literary Histories - Ralph Cohen
Chapter Two: Texts and Works: Some Historical Questions on the Editing of Old English Verse - Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe
Chapter Three: Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England: Henry V and John Lydgate - Lee Patterson
Chapter Four: Shakespeare Bewitched - Stephen Greenblatt
Chapter Five: Re-visioning the Restoration: Or, How to Stop Obscuring Early Women Writers - Margaret J. M. Ezell
Chapter Six: Re-presenting the Body in Pamela II - Janet E. Aikins
Chapter Seven: Fictions and Freedom: Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romanticism - Terence Allan Hoagwood
Chapter Eight: Beyond the Valley of Production; or, Defactorum natura: A Dialogue - Jerome J. McGann
Chapter Nine: Literary History as a Hybrid Genre - Lawrence Buell
Chapter Ten: Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice - Michael Rogin
Chapter Eleven: Black, White, and in Color, or Learning How to Paint: Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading - Hortense J. Spillers
Chapter Twelve: Exiling History: Hysterical Transgression in Historical Narrative - Robert D. Newman
Chapter Thirteen: Figures, Configurations, Transfigurations - Edward W. Said
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