- 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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This reader contains contributions on such topics as: Shakespeare's ear; George Eliot and "Daniel Deronda" - the prostitute and the Jewish question; "The Bostonians"; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the politics of literary history; logic of the transvestite; the Arab challenge to cultural dependancy.
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