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.