After Theory: Criticism Since the 1980s

After Theory forms a companion volume to Leitch's earlier American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s, which is regarded as a standard in the field. American Literary Criticism covered a long range, from the 1920s Agrarian movement which precipitated the New Criticism through the major theoretical programs of the 60s and 70s, such as deconstruction, feminism, and Marxism. 9780415967198 After Theory forms a companion volume to Leitch's earlier American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 19

IntroductionAround 1985Against TheoryTheory Personified: The de Man Case and Narratives of CriticismChapter One: New HistoricismBack to HistoryThe Invention of Cultural Poetics: The Case of Stephen GreenblattThe Berkeley Platform: RepresentationsSubversion and Containment: British Literature and the PoliceThe New AmericanismFrom Wonder to Routine: The New Historicism EntrenchedInterchapterMergers and Acquisitions: "The Routledge Revolution" and Academic PublishingChapter Two: Postcolonial CriticismDecolonization MovementsSubaltern StudiesThe Uses of Theory (Said and Bhabha)Third World WomenA Marxist ChallengeNations, Migration, and GeographyNew CosmopolitanismsInterchapterThe Culture Wars, the Canon, and MulticulturalismChapter Three: Queer StudiesAfter StonewallOut from the Margins of FeminismPolitics of the Closet (Lesbian and Gay Poetics)Beyond Essentialism: From Subjectivity to the BodyPerforming SexualityQueering Literary Studies: Textbooks, Canons, ProgramsQueer CitizenshipInterchapterProfessionalism and InstitutionsChapter Four: Cultural StudiesFrom the Heartland: The Doorstop VolumeHeritage ClaimsPopular Culture TriumphantThe Invention of Whiteness and Other Identity CrisesScience Wars and the Critique of Cultural PoliticsThe Struggle for a Mailbox: Programs, Centers, and InstitutionsDisciplinary Bridges: American Studies, Working Class Studies, and Other InitiativesInterchapterJob Actions: Downsizing and Academic LaborChapter Five: The New BelletrismAcademic Writing after TheoryConfessional CriticismNarrating IdentityThe Public Intellectual RebornAffect and the New AestheticismThe Idioms and Audiences of CriticismInterchapterDisciplinary CrossroadsChapter Six: Globalization StudiesPostmodernism and the New World OrderThe University CorporatizedCyborgs and DominationVirtual RealitiesRe-Marx and EmpirePostnational LiteraturesConclusionThe Function of Criticism at the Present Time