Introduction: Presentism, Form, and the Future of History
Anna Kornbluh and Benjamin Morgan
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| I. Bleak House Today |
Bleak House: 19, 20, 21
Alex Woloch |
A Note on Reading Bleak House
Elaine Auyoung |
Bleakness
Elisha Cohn |
Dickens’ Resonance
David Sweeney Coombs |
On the Genealogy of “Deportment”: Being Present in Bleak House
Jonathan Farina |
Untimely Dickens
Emily Steinlight |
Charles Dickens in 1948
Megan Ward |
| II. Theorizing the Present |
Impassioned Objectivity: Nietzsche, Hardy, and the Science of Fiction
S. Pearl Brilmyer |
Jamming the Historical Machine
Danielle Coriale |
Too Many Nietzsches
Eleanor Courtemanche |
Untimely Historicism
Devin Griffiths |
On the Uses of Nietzsche’s “Uses”
Matthew Sussman |
Unhistorical Reading and Mutual Playing
Daniel Wright |
| III. The Way We Write Now |
Introduction: Historicism: From the Break to the Loop
Caroline Levine |
Notes on Presentism and the Cultural Logic of Dissociation
Carolyn Betensky |
Kink in Time
Ellis Hanson |
History Repeating
Anna Kornbluh |
Maintenance Work: On Tradition and Development
Jesse Rosenthal |
Anthropocene Inscriptions: Reading Global Synchrony
Jesse Oak Taylor |
| IV. Empire and Unfielding |
Introduction
Tanya Agathocleous |
Jyotirao Phule’s “Slavery”
Tanya Agathocleous |
Swinburne’s Oxford Notebook: Violence in/as Form
Nathan K. Hensley |
Emergency Repairs Are Required on All Our Dams
Joseph Lavery |
The Light of Asia and the Varieties of Victorian Presentism
Sebastian Lecourt |
Biopolitics and Greater Britain
Nasser Mufti |
Charles Kickham’s Knocknagow: Or, the Homes of Tipperary
Mary L. Mullen |
| V. Keynote and Responses |
On the Non-Representation of Atrocity
Bruce Robbins |
Genealogies of Self-Accusation
Zachary Samalin |
Literary Subjects
Molly Clark Hillard |
Closing Remarks
Elaine Hadley |
