New Historical Literary Study

Essays on Reproducing Texts, Representing History
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-691-01546-0
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cox, Jeffrey N.

Reynolds, Larry J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroduction: The Historicist Enterprise3Ch. 1Generating Literary Histories39Ch. 2Texts and Works: Some Historical Questions on the Editing of Old English Verse54Ch. 3Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England: Henry V and John Lydgate69Ch. 4Shakespeare Bewitched108Ch. 5Re-visioning the Restoration: Or, How to Stop Obscuring Early Women Writers136Ch. 6Re-presenting the Body in Pamela II151Ch. 7Fictions and Freedom: Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romanticism178Ch. 8Beyond the Valley of Production; or, De factorum natura: A Dialogue198Ch. 9Literary History as a Hybrid Genre216Ch. 10Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice230Ch. 11Black, White, and in Color, or Learning How to Paint: Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading267Ch. 12Exiling History: Hysterical Transgression in Historical Narrative292Ch. 13Figures, Configurations, Transfigurations316Index331