New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

General Editor's Preface
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Literature in History
PART 1: THE TURN TO HISTORY
Key Contexts and Theorists
New Historicism: Representations of History and Power
Cultural Poetics: After the New Historicism?
Cultural Materialism: Literature and Dissident Politics
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Today
PART 2: APPLICATIONS AND READINGS
'On the Edge of a Black and Incomprehensible Frenzy': An New Historicist Reading of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Producing the Subject: A New Historicist Reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilmans's The Yellow Wallpaper
Cultural Materialism and Reading Dissidence in(to) the Poetry of Alfred Tennyson
'I Write it out in a Verse': Power, History and Colonialism in W.B.Yeat's Easter 1916
PART 3: AFTERWORDS
After History: Textuality and Historicity in New Historicism
The Importance of Not Concluding
Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography
Index.