The New Historicism

H. Aram Veeser

Chapter 1 Towards a Poetics of Culture, Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 2 Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture, Louis A. Montrose; Chapter 3 Marxism and The New Historicism, Catherine Gallagher; Chapter 4 The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction, Joel Fineman; Chapter 5 English Romanticism and Cultural Production, Jon Klancher; Chapter 6 The Use and Misuse of Giambattista Vico: Rhetoric, Orality, and Theories of Discourse, John D. Schaeffer; Chapter 7 The Sense of the Past: Image, Text, and Object in the Formation of Historical Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Stephen Bann; Chapter 8 The Struggle for the Cultural Heritage: Christina Stead Refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, Jonathan Arac; Chapter 9 The Asylums of Antaeus: Women, War, and Madness—Is there a Feminist Fetishism?, Jane Marcus; Chapter 10 History as Usual? Feminism and the “New Historicism”, Judith Lowder Newton; Chapter 11 Co-optation, Gerald Graff; Chapter 12 The New Historicism and other Old-fashioned Topics, Brook Thomas; Chapter 13 The Nation as Imagined Community, Jean Franco; Chapter 14 Literary Criticism and the Politics of the New Historicism, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Chapter 15 Is there Class in this Class?, Richard Terdiman; Chapter 16 Foucault’s Legacy—A New Historicism?, Frank Lentricchia; Chapter 17 The Limits of Local Knowledge, Vincent P. Pecora; Chapter 18 The New Historicism: Political Commitment and the Postmodern Critic, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Chapter 19 New Historicism: A Comment, Hayden White; commentary Commentary: The Young and the Restless, Stanley Fish;