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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The Historicist Enterprise -- Chapter One -- Generating Literary Histories -- Chapter Two -- Texts and Works: Some Historical Questions on the Editing of Old English Verse -- Chapter Three -- Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England: Henry V and John Lydgate -- Chapter Four -- Shakespeare Bewitched -- Chapter Five -- Re-visioning the Restoration: Or, How to Stop Obscuring Early Women Writers -- Chapter Six -- Re-presenting the Body in Pamela II -- Chapter Seven -- Fictions and Freedom: Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romanticism -- Chapter Eight -- Beyond the Valley of Production; or, De factorum natura: A Dialogue -- Chapter Nine -- Literary History as a Hybrid Genre -- Chapter Ten -- Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice -- Chapter Eleven -- Black, White, and in Color, or Learning How to Paint: Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading -- Chapter Twelve -- Exiling History: Hysterical Transgression in Historical Narrative -- Chapter Thirteen -- Figures, Configurations, Transfigurations -- Index 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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