The Limits of Literary Historicism

Index

Index Abrams, M. H., 156–57 abstraction: critique of, 147, 149; in painting, 158 action painting, 156 Adams, John, 35 Adorno, Theodor, xxivn1, 132, 167n3 aesthetic judgment, 133–36 aesthetic representativeness, 135–36 aesthetic value: limitations of, 81–82, 98 aesthetics, 119n7, 127–37, 140–41 Alcott, Louisa May, 38 Alger, Horatio, xiii Alger, William Rounsville, 89, 101n15 Althusser, Louis, 30, 31, 48n2 Altieri, Charles M., xxiii, 83, 98, 101n11, 145– 70 Ambrose, Stephen, 61 anachronism, xxii, 106–7, 109–10, 112, 118, 119n2, 119n6, 121n16 Andrews, William L., 70 Ankersmit, F. R., 47n1, 120n14, 121n19 Arabian Nights, The, 78, 86, 91 archival research, 3 art institutions, 132 audience function, 157 Auerbach, Erich, 47 auto-production, 135, 141 Badiou, Alain, 132 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 33, 34, 49n7 Balzac, Honoré de, 37 Barrish, Phillip, 119n6 Benjamin, Walter, 45 Berkhofer, Robert F., 119n2, 120n9 Berman, Carolyn Vellenga, 36–37, 43 Bernstein, Jay, xxiii, 146–49, 167n3 Berry, R. M., xxii–xxiii, 127–43 Bérubé, Michael, xxii, 127–32, 134, 141, 142n2, 142n4 binary oppositions, 12–13, 149, 157 Blair, Jayson, 58 Bloom, Harold, xvii Boker, George, 78, 90 books: as material objects, 139–40 Borges, Jorge Luis, 29, 139 Bourdieu, Pierre, 48n2, 133, 142n5, 142n6 Bradley, A. C., 23 Brannigan, John, 48n2 Braque, Georges, 148 Brontë, Charlotte, 37 Brower, Reuben, 4 Brown, Charles Brockden, 40 Buell, Lawrence, 81 Bufleb, August, 90 Burke, Peter, 49n8 Cage, John, 129 canons, 3, 4, 19 causation, 33, 35, 113–14, 116–17, 120n11 Cavell, Stanley, 129–31, 132–33 Cézanne, Paul, xxiii, 150–58, 160–62, 167– 68n5, 168n6; realization in, 156, 163, 168n6; rendering in, 155 character, 163–64 Chesnutt, Charles W., xxi, 67–72; contemporary reviews of, 69–70; evenhandedness of, 69; The Marrow of Tradition, xxi, 67–72. child, figure of, 35–36 Index 176 Childers, Thomas, 61 Christensen, Jerome, 119n6 chronology, xxii, 106–8, 110 Clark, T. J., 158, 168n8 Claybaugh, Amanda, 38, 49n14 Clayton, Jay, 119n6 close reading, xix–xx, 4–7, 8n5 Cohen, Stephen, 33, 48n2, 48n6, 48n8 Colebrook, Claire, 48n2, 49n13 Collingwood, R. G., 43 colonialism, 39 Conrad, Joseph, 72–73, 155 Conwell, Russell H., 79, 90 constructivism, 44–45 context, historical, 106, 121n19 Crane, Ronald S., 38, 50n15 Creole, figure of, 36, 39, 43 critical distance, xi–xiv Cubism, 156, 158 cultural capital, 132 cultural history, 5–6 cultural poetics, 33, 40 cultural studies, xxiii–xxiii, 127 culture of opposition, 11, 166n1 Danto, Arthur C., 45, 132 Deconstruction, xx, 4, 11, 12–16, 26, 34 deep time, 80–81 De Hooch, Peter, 147–48, 167n3 Delacroix, Eugène, 82 DeLanda, Manuel, 167–68n5 Delbanco, Andrew, 99 Deleuze, Gilles, 167n5 de Man, Paul, 4, 8n2, 15–16, 26 Derrida, Jacques xxiv–xxvn2, 13 Dewey, John, 36 Didur, Jill, 49–50n14 Dimock, Wai Chee, xxii, 80–82, 91, 98, 100n8 Dowling, Mike, 66 DuBois, Andrew, 8n2 Du Bois, W. E. B., 35, 36 Duchamp, Marcel, 129 Dunn, Allen, xi–xxv Eagleton, Terry, 146, 167n3 Edwards, Holly, 79–80 Einstein, Albert, 111, 120n12 Elias, Amy J., xx–xxi, 29–53 Eliot, T. S., xvii, xxiii, 61, 164-66, 168–69n13, 169n14, 169n15 Ellmann, Richard, 101n14 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 81–82, 91, 98, 100n8 empiricism, 41, 145–46, 164 Enlightenment, 145 envy, 6, 8n4 Equiano, Olaudah, 40 ethics, 45 exceptionalism, 38 Falco, Raphael, 101n15 Felton, Rebecca, 65 Fields, James, 79 Fish, Stanley, xxivn1, 13, 25 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 139 Flaccus, Valerius, 57 formalism, 20, 31–33, 46–47, 48n6, 51n20 Foucault, Michel, xvi, xx, 30, 31–35, 37, 40, 41, 43, 47n7, 49n12, 132 Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 48n6 Franklin, Benjamin, 40 fraudulence, aesthetic, xxiii, 129, 131–33, 136, 141 Freire, Paulo, 7 Freneau, Charles Philip, 40 Frith, Simon, 128, 131, 141, 142n2, 142n5 Frye, Northrop, 38, 50n15 Furet, François, 33 Gallagher, Catherine, xviii–xix, 14, 24, 42, 48n2, 121n15 Gallop, Jane, xix–xx, 3–8 Garber, Marjorie, 110, 119n5 Gauguin, Paul, 156 genealogy, 31, 32, 34 genius, 37–38, 40 G.I. Bill, 19 Gide, André, 101n14 Glass, Stephen, 58–59 Index 177 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 81, 82, 85, 89, 101n13 Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 61 Goudie, Sean, 39–40 Gramsci, Antonio, 31 Greeley, Horace, 78 Greenberg, Clement, 168n6 Greenblatt, Stephen, xviii–xix, 9, 14, 19, 31– 32, 43, 47, 48n2, 48n6, 58, 112–16, 119n4, 121n15 Grumley, John, 49n13 Gurley, Jennifer, 168n7 Haddox, Thomas F., xi–xxv Hafiz, 81 Haight, Sarah, 88, 99 Hammer, Joseph von, 81...