Historical Criticism And The Challenge Of Theory

Introduction / Janet Levarie Smarr -- Balzac's Empire: History, Insanity, And The Realist Text / Sandy Petrey -- Reading History In Literature: Speculation And Virtue In Our Mutual Friend / Mary Poovey -- The Reader In The Labyrinth / Julio Ortega -- Toward Events Without History / Sande Cohen -- The Politics Of Love Poetry In Renaissance Italy / Lauro Martines -- They Say Or We Say: Popular Protest And Ventriloquism In Early Modern England / Annabel Patterson -- Bifold Authority In Reformation Discourse: Authorization, Representation, And Early Modern Meaning / Robert Weimann -- Historicism Historicized: Translating Petrarch And Derrida / Marguerite Waller. Edited By Janet Levarie Smarr. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.