CONTENTS
Acknowledgments = ⅴ
The New Historicism / H. Aram Veeser = 1
THE BEGINNINGS
1. The Role of King / Stephen Orgel = 35
2. The Improvisation of Power / Stephen Greenblatt = 46
3. "Eliza, Queens of Shepheardes," and the Pastoral of Power / Louis Adrian Montrose = 88
4. Shakespeare's Ear / Joel Fineman = 116
5. George Eliot and Daniel Deronda : The Prostitute and the Jewish Question / Catherine Gallagher = 124
6. New Americanists : Revisionist Interventions into the Canon / Donald E. Pease = 141
7. The Construction of Privacy in and around The Bostonians / Brook Thomas = 161
8. Romance and Real Estate / Walter Benn Michaels = 186
9. Sentimental Power : Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History / Jane Tompkins = 206
10. "Make My Day!" : Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics / Michael Rogin = 229
11. The Logic of the Transvestite / Marjorie Garber = 257
12. Adam Bede and Henry Esmond : Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick = 270
13. Mism a ? r Goha : The Arab Challenge to Cultural Dependency / Barbara Harlow = 295
14. History Is Like Mother / Jane Gallop = 311
15. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History : Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts? / Dipesh Chakrabarty = 342
Bibliography = 370
Contributors = 376
