Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Contingent Methods 1
5. 1. The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism 29
6. 2. Trying Cultural Criticism: Wordsworth and Subversion 71
7. 3. Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail 109
8. 4. Remembering the Spruce Goose: Historicism, Postmodernism, Romanticism 139
9. 5. The New Historicism and the Work of Mourning 157
10. 6. The Interdisciplinary War Machine 167
11. 7. Sidney’s Technology: A Critique by Technology of Literary History 187
12. 8. Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse 209
13. 9. Escaping History: The New Historicism, Databases, and Contingency 239
14. Notes 263
15. Works Cited 333
16. Index 361