New historical literary study : essays on reproducing texts, representing history / edited by Jeffrey N. Cox, Larry J. Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cox, Jeffrey N., editor.

Reynolds, Larry J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Criticism, Textual.

English literature.

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1993]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691069906

0691069905

OCLC:

1257083971