Contents; Foreword: The Scene and the Unseen of the Critic's Discourse; 1. Notes Toward a Politics of ""American"" Criticism; 2. Theory, Criticism, Dissent: Toward a Sociology of Literary Knowledge; 3. Critical Change and the Collective Archive; 4. Irreconcilable Differences: Kant, Hegel, and the ""Idea"" of Critical History; 5. Hamlet, Little Doritt, and the History of Character; 6. Hobbesian Fear: Richardson, de Man, Rousseau, and Burke; 7. Us and Them: On the Philosophical Bases of Political Criticism; Contributors; Index |