Table of Contents
Introduction: Literary History
Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for “Antiquarian” History
Multiple Personalities and Pastiches: Proust père et fils
Decontextualizing Context
From Music to Literature
Literary History without Literature: Reading Practices in the Ancient World
Circulating Representations: New Historicism and the Poetics of Culture
Intellectuals on the Couch: The Sokal Hoax and Other Impostures intellectuelles
Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary by Leslie Hill
Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage by Herbert Lindenberger
The Libertine’s Progress: Seduction in the Eighteenth-Century French Novel by Pierre Saint-Amand, Jennifer Curtiss Gage
Réflexions et menus propos d’un peintre genevois ou essai sur le beau dans les arts by Rodolphe Töpffer, Charles Grivel
Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power by Abby E. Zanger