| List of Illustrations | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| List of Contributors | |
| Introduction: The Historicist Enterprise | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Generating Literary Histories | 39 |
| Ch. 2 | Texts and Works: Some Historical Questions on the Editing of Old English Verse | 54 |
| Ch. 3 | Making Identities in Fifteenth-Century England: Henry V and John Lydgate | 69 |
| Ch. 4 | Shakespeare Bewitched | 108 |
| Ch. 5 | Re-visioning the Restoration: Or, How to Stop Obscuring Early Women Writers | 136 |
| Ch. 6 | Re-presenting the Body in Pamela II | 151 |
| Ch. 7 | Fictions and Freedom: Wordsworth and the Ideology of Romanticism | 178 |
| Ch. 8 | Beyond the Valley of Production; or, De factorum natura: A Dialogue | 198 |
| Ch. 9 | Literary History as a Hybrid Genre | 216 |
| Ch. 10 | Blackface, White Noise: The Jewish Jazz Singer Finds His Voice | 230 |
| Ch. 11 | Black, White, and in Color, or Learning How to Paint: Toward an Intramural Protocol of Reading | 267 |
| Ch. 12 | Exiling History: Hysterical Transgression in Historical Narrative | 292 |
| Ch. 13 | Figures, Configurations, Transfigurations | 316 |
| Index | 331 |
