The New Historicism Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415907828 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 384 str.

Harold Veeser; H. Aram Veeser

Opis

Can a movement that denies its existence have its canonical instances? Readers may judge for themselves whether New Historicism is a phrase without a referent. "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.
The essays encompass astounding variety: a wolfish High Constable dresses as a sheep to greet Queen Elizabeth; Jewish nationalism corrects "Daniel Deronda's" sinister world of art, money, and reckless women; Justices Warren and Brandeis team up with Henry James to construct American privacy; the story of a two-penny nail drives Egyptian foreign policy; a forgotten Dirty Harry motif wins George Bush an election. But as different as these essays may be, each one reads an instant when selves crossed through various zones and hybridized in a fractured field. Each essay possesses the New Historicism's signal virtue, what one critic called its "drop-dead elegant prose."
Harold Veeser's introduction locates allies and opponents, surveys related fields, and identifies now-emerging New Historicist themes: the go-between, hybridization, embarrassment, autobiographical moves, and personal writing. His selected bibliography gives access to an opulent literature devoted to theorizing and attacking New Historicism, a phrase that--if it lacks a referent--has no want of references. In short, "The Reader" offers everything required to know, teach, and practice the New Historicism.
Contributors: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Joel Fineman, Catherine Gallagher, Jane Gallop, Marjorie Garber, Stephen Greenblatt, BarbaraHarlow, Louis Montrose, Walter Benn Michaels, Stephen Orgel, Donald Pease, Michael Rogin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Harold Veeser