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The New Historicism Reader documents the New Historicists' multiplex achievement, spanning Renaissance and Reagan studies, American realism, English romanticism, gender studies, feminism, and communications and rhetoric. Harold Veeser's introduction locates allies and opponents, surveys related fields, and identifies now-emerging New Historicist themes: the go-between, hybridization,... Read more
Introduction H. Aram Veeser The Beginnings 1. The Role of the King Stephen Orgel 2. The Improvistion of Power Stephen Greenblatt 3. 'Eliza, Queene of Shepeardes, and the Pastoral of Power Louis Montrose 4. Shakespeare's Ear Joel Fineman 5. George Elliot and Daniel Deronda: The Prostitute and the Jewish Questions Catherine Gallagher 6. New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions into the Canon Donald Pease 7. The Construction of Privacy in and around The Bostonians Brook Thomas 8. Romance and Real Estate Walter Benn Michaels 9. Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History Jane Tompkins 10. Make my Day! Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics Michael Rogin Some Fractures and Futures of the New Historicism 11. The Logic of the Transvestite Marjorie Garber 12. Adam Bede and Henry Esmond: Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 13. Mismar Goha: The Arab Challlenge to Cultural Dependancy Barbara Harlow 14. History Is Like Mother Jane Gallop 15. Postcoliality and the Artiface of History: Who Speaks for `Indian' Pasts? Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Harold Veeser
