Includes bibliographical references

History and literature: "after the new historicism" / Carolyn Porter -- Response to Carolyn Porter / Rena Fraden -- Response to Rena Fraden / Carolyn Porter -- Imagining history in the Bible / Robert Alter -- The story of the eye / Rosalind E. Krauss -- History and images in medicine / Sander L. Gilman -- Family, community, polis: the Freudian structure of feeling / John Brenkman -- The productive hypothesis: Foucault, gender, and the history of sexuality / Carolyn J. Dean -- Film and history: spectatorship, transference, and race / E. Ann Kaplan -- History and music / Leo Treitler -- History and theater: reweaving the afterpiece / W.D. King -- History and anthropology / Clifford Geertz -- Response to Clifford Geertz / Renato Rosaldo -- History and folklore: luck-visits, house-attacks, and playing Indian in Early America / Roger D. Abrahams -- Two kinds of "new historicism" for philosophers / Ian Hacking -- Response to Ian Hacking / David A. Hollinger -- Response to David A. Hollinger / Ian Hacking -- Sometimes, always, never: their women's history and ours / Lillian S. Robinson -- History and cultural studies / Elazar Barkan -- History ... but / Robert Davidoff -- History and the study of culture / Carl E. Schorske -- Afterthoughts: historical intervention and the writing of history / Ralph Cohen