• Contributors; Introduction Seth Lerer; Part I. The Everday and History: 1. 'Pathos of the earthly progress': Erich Auerbach's everydays Hans Urich Gumbrecht; 2. Auerbach's 'hidden' (?) theory of history Claus Uhlig; 3. Auerbach and literary history Luiz Costa-Lima; Part II. Philology, Language and History: 4. Philology in Auerbach's drama of (literary) history Stephen G. Nichols; 5. Philology and collaboration: the case of Adam and Eve Seth Lerer; 6. Medieval vernaculars and the myth of monoglossia: a conspiracy of linguistics and philology Suzanne Fleischman; Part III. Figural History, Historical Figures: 7. Figura, allegory, and the question of history Jesse M. Gellrich; 8. Auerbach's literary history: figural causation and modernist historicism Hayden White; Part IV. Turning Points in Literary History: 9. Literary realism in the later ancient period Brian Stock; 10. The ideology of periodization: Mimesis 10 and the late medieval aesthetic Kevin Brownlee; Part V. Legacies: 11. Auerbach's performance and the American acade my, or how New Haven stole the idea of mimesis Carl Landauer; 12. On the reception of mimesis Herbert Lindenberger; 13. Erich Auerbach and the 'inner dream' of transcendence Geoffrey Green; 14. Literature as language: Auerbach, Spitzer, Jakobson Thomas R. Hart; Notes; Index.

"The lasting impact of this volume will be found less in historicizing Auerbach as a literary figure than in revitalizing his enterprise for literary studies—and for medieval studies in particular. . . . What he provides us is a methodology that belies the common criticism of medieval philology that its efforts are irrelevant to contemporary literary practice."—Envoi