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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Enigma of Critical Distance; or, Why Historicists Need Convictions xi Allen Dunn and Thomas F. Haddox Part 1 The Limits of Historicism The Historicization of Literary Studies 3 Jane Gallop The Children of New Historicism: Literary Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Will to Publish 9 Rebecca Munson and Claude Willan Faithful Historicism and Philosophical Semi-Retirement 29 Amy J. Elias Part 2 Engagements with History Fiction as History: Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition as Source Material 57 Bruce Plourde Bayard Taylor and the Limits of Orientalism 77 Christoph Irmscher The Prehistory of Posthistoricism 105 Jeffrey Insko Part 3 Alternatives to History Modernism and the Aesthetics of Cultural Studies 127 R. M. Berry Why Modernist Claims for Autonomy Matter 145 Charles M. Altieri Contributors 171 Index 175 [35.172.193.238] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 13:18 GMT) Illustrations Thomas Hicks, Bayard Taylor 76 Camille Pissarro, Bridge for the Railroad in Pontoise 151 Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Painting 159 ...