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Book SynopsisAims to showcase some of the best historical work in textual theory, literary history, and cultural criticism. This volume contains essays that illuminate literary periods ranging from Anglo-Saxon to postmodern, a variety of literary texts that includes "Macbeth", "The Jazz Singer", and "The Chosen Place, the Timeless People".
Table of ContentsList 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
