Reading the Past : Literature and History (Paperback)

Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction.- Emperor Kennedy Legend: A New Anthropological Debate; L. Kolakowski.- The Watercress Seller; C. Steedman.- From Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison; M. Foucault.- Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin; R. Darnton.- Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison; S. Willis.- At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation; S. Greenblatt.- Facing History, or the Anxiety of Reading. Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' According to Greenblatt and Lyotard; J. Pieters.- Reading Cultural History; C. Belsey.- Theses on the Philosophy of History; W. Benjamin.- Camus' The Plague, or a Monument to Witnessing?; S. Felman.- Why Bother with the Past? Engaging with Some Issues Raised by the 'End of History as we Have Known it'; K. Jenkins.- from The Writing of History; M. de Certeau.- Summaries and Notes.- Glossary.- Suggestions for Further Reading.- Index.