Jeffrey N. Cox is Associate Professor of English and Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroduction: The Historicist Enterprise3Ch. 1Generating Literary Histories39Ch. 2Texts and Works: Some Historical Questions on the Editing of Old English Verse54Ch. 3Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England: Henry V and John Lydgate69Ch. 4Shakespeare Bewitched108Ch. 5Re-visioning the Restoration: Or, How to Stop Obscuring Early Women Writers136Ch. 6Re-presenting the Body in Pamela II151Ch. 7Fictions and Freedom: Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romanticism178Ch. 8Beyond the Valley of Production; or, De factorum natura: A Dialogue198Ch. 9Literary History as a Hybrid Genre216Ch. 10Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice230Ch. 11Black, White, and in Color, or Learning How to Paint: Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading267Ch. 12Exiling History: Hysterical Transgression in Historical Narrative292Ch. 13Figures, Configurations, Transfigurations316Index331

Jeffrey N. Cox is Associate Professor of English and Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroduction: The Historicist Enterprise3Ch. 1Generating Literary Histories39Ch. 2Texts and Works: Some Historical Questions on the Editing of Old English Verse54Ch. 3Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England: Henry V and John Lydgate69Ch. 4Shakespeare Bewitched108Ch. 5Re-visioning the Restoration: Or, How to Stop Obscuring Early Women Writers136Ch. 6Re-presenting the Body in Pamela II151Ch. 7Fictions and Freedom: Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romanticism178Ch. 8Beyond the Valley of Production; or, De factorum natura: A Dialogue198Ch. 9Literary History as a Hybrid Genre216Ch. 10Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice230Ch. 11Black, White, and in Color, or Learning How to Paint: Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading267Ch. 12Exiling History: Hysterical Transgression in Historical Narrative292Ch. 13Figures, Configurations, Transfigurations316Index331

Jeffrey N. Cox is Associate Professor of English and Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroduction: The Historicist Enterprise3Ch. 1Generating Literary Histories39Ch. 2Texts and Works: Some Historical Questions on the Editing of Old English Verse54Ch. 3Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England: Henry V and John Lydgate69Ch. 4Shakespeare Bewitched108Ch. 5Re-visioning the Restoration: Or, How to Stop Obscuring Early Women Writers136Ch. 6Re-presenting the Body in Pamela II151Ch. 7Fictions and Freedom: Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romanticism178Ch. 8Beyond the Valley of Production; or, De factorum natura: A Dialogue198Ch. 9Literary History as a Hybrid Genre216Ch. 10Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice230Ch. 11Black, White, and in Color, or Learning How to Paint: Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading267Ch. 12Exiling History: Hysterical Transgression in Historical Narrative292Ch. 13Figures, Configurations, Transfigurations316Index331