Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / H. Aram Veeser -- Towards a poetics of culture / Stephen Greenblatt -- Professing the Renaissance : the poetics and politics of culture / Louis A. Montrose -- Marxism and the new historicism / Catherine Gallagher -- The history of the anecdote : fiction and fiction / Joel Fineman -- English Romanticism and cultural production / Jon Klancher -- The use and misuse of Giambattista Vico : rhetoric, orality, and theories of discoure / John D. Schaeffer -- The sense of the past : image, text, and object in the formation of historical consciousness in nineteenth-century Britain / Stephen Bann -- The struggle for the cultural heritage : Christina Stead refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain / Jonathan Arac -- The asylums of Antaeus : women, war, and madness : is there a feminist fetishism? / Jane Marcus.

History as usual? : feminism and the "new historicism" / Judith Lowder Newton -- Co-optation / Gerald Graff -- The new historicism and otherold-fashioned topics / Brook Thomas -- The nation as imagined community / Jean Franco -- Literary criticism and the politics of the new historicism / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Is there class in this class? / Richard Terdiman -- Foucault's legacy : a new historicism? / Frank Lentricchia -- The limits of local knowledge / Vincent P. Pecora -- The new historicism : political commitment and the postmodern critic / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- New historicism : a comment / Hayden White -- Commentary : the young and the restless / Stanley Fish.

All age.