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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.