Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. List of Contributors xi
6. Introduction 3
7. The Historicist Enterprise 3
8. Chapter One
9. Generating Literary Histories 39
10. Chapter Two
11. Texts and Works: Some Historical Questions on the Editing of Old English Verse 54
12. Chapter Three
13. Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England: Henry V and John Lydgate 69
14. Chapter Four
15. Shakespeare Bewitched 108
16. Chapter Five
17. Re-visioning the Restoration: Or, How to Stop Obscuring Early Women Writers 136
18. Chapter Six
19. Re-presenting the Body in Pamela II 151
20. Chapter Seven
21. Fictions and Freedom: Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romanticism 178
22. Chapter Eight
23. Beyond the Valley of Production; or, De factorum natura: A Dialogue 198
24. Chapter Nine
25. Literary History as a Hybrid Genre 216
26. Chapter Ten
27. Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice 230
28. Chapter Eleven
29. Black, White, and in Color, or Learning How to Paint: Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading 267
30. Chapter Twelve
31. Exiling History: Hysterical Transgression in Historical Narrative 292
32. Chapter Thirteen
33. Figures, Configurations, Transfigurations 316
34. Index 331