Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The enigma of critical distance; or, why historicists need convictions / Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox -- Pt. 1. The limits of historicism -- the historicization of literary studies / Jane Gallop -- The children of New Historicism: literary scholarship, professionalization, and the will to publish / Rebecca Munson and Claude Willan -- Faithful historicism and philosophical semi-retirement / Amy J. Elias -- Pt. 2. Engagements with history -- Fiction as history: Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition as source material / Bruce Plourde -- Bayard Taylor and the limits of Orientalism / Christoph Irmscher -- The prehistory of posthistoricism / Jeffrey Insko -- Pt. 3. Alternatives to history modernism and the aesthetics of cultural studies / R. M. Berry -- Why modernist claims for autonomy matter / Charles M. Altieri.

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