New Historical Literary Study: Essays on Reproducing Texts, Representing History / Edition 1

by Jeffrey N. Cox, Larry J. Reynolds

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691015460
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	07/01/1993
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jeffrey N. Cox is Associate Professor of English and Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
	List of Contributors	xi
	Introduction: The Historicist Enterprise	3
Chapter 1	Generating Literary Histories	39
Chapter 2	Texts and Works: Some Historical Questions on the Editing of Old English Verse	54
Chapter 3	Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England: Henry V and John Lydgate	69
Chapter 4	Shakespeare Bewitched	108
Chapter 5	Re-visioning the Restoration: Or, How to Stop Obscuring Early Women Writers	136
Chapter 6	Re-presenting the Body in Pamela II	151
Chapter 7	Fictions and Freedom: Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romanticism	178
Chapter 8	Beyond the Valley of Production; or, De factorum natura: A Dialogue	198
Chapter 9	Literary History as a Hybrid Genre	216
Chapter 10	Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice	230
Chapter 11	Black, White, and in Color, or Learning How to Paint: Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading	267
Chapter 12	Exiling History: Hysterical Transgression in Historical Narrative	292
Chapter 13	Figures, Configurations, Transfigurations	316
	Index	331