Special Issue: The State of Literary History |
| Preface |
| Author |
Title |
| Marshall Brown and John C. Coldewey | Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue |
| Articles |
| Author |
Title |
| Lawrence Lipking | A Trout in the Milk |
| Denis Hollier | On Literature Considered as a Dead Language |
| Virgil Nemoianu | Literary History: Some Roads Not (Yet) Taken |
| Charles Altieri | Can We Be Historical Ever? Some Hopes for a Dialectical Model of Historical Self-Consciousness |
| Annabel Patterson | More Speech on Free Speech |
| R. Howard Bloch | The Once and Future Middle Ages |
| Meredith Anne Skura | Understanding the Living and Talking to the Dead: The Historicity of Psychoanalysis |
| Peter Stallybrass | Editing as Cultural Formation: The Sexing of Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| Jonathan Arac | What Is the History of Literature? |
| Walter Benn Michaels | The Victims of New Historicism |
| Marjorie Perloff | Empiricism Once More |
| David Perkins | Some Prospects for Literary History |
| Doris Sommer | Textual Conquests: On Readerly Competence and "Minority" Literature |
| Richard Dellamora | Textual Politics/Sexual Politics |
| Jerome McGann | Literature, Meaning, and the Discontinuity of Fact |
| Paul H. Fry | The Hum of Literature: Ostension in Language |