In topics ranging from Sappho and the rise of German nationalism to race in the work of Andy Warhol, these essays look at the ways in which politics and aesthetics arise from the interpenetration of the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimension of artistic practice.

Sarah Amsler, "Beyond All Reason: Spaces of Hope in the Struggle for EnglandÕs Universities," Fall 2011, 116: 62-87.

Michael Baxandall, "Art, Society, and the Bouguer Principle," Fall 1985, 12: 32-43.

Svetlana Boym, "From the Russian Soul to Post-Communist Nostalgia," Winter 1995, 49: 133-66.

Thomas Bredsdorff, "Speech Act Theory and Saga Studies," Fall 2007, 100: 34-41.

Richard H. Brodhead, "Sparing the Rod: Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America," Winter 1988, 21: 67-96.

Finn Brunton, "Constitutive Interference: Span and Online Communities," Winter 2012, 117: 30-58.

Christopher Bush, "The Ethnicity of Things in America's Lacquered Age," Summer 2007, 99: 74-98.

Giulia Calvi, "A Metaphor for Social Exchange: The Florentine Plague of 1630" (trans. Paul Ferrara), Winter 1986, 13: 139-63.

Mark Canuel, "Doing Justice in Aesthetics," Summer 2006, 95: 76-104.

Margaret D. Carroll, "The Erotics of Absolutism: Rubens and the Mystification of Sexual Violence," Winter 1989, 25: 3-30.

Margaret D. Carroll, "'In the Name of God and Profit': Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait," Fall 1993, 44: 96-132.

Xiaomei Chen, "'Misunderstanding' Western Modernism: The Menglong Movement in Post-Mao China," Summer 1991, 35: 143-63.

Jerome Christensen, "Hume's Social Composition," Fall 1985, 12: 44-65.

Kevin Chua, "In the Shadow of David's Brutus," Winter 2013, 121: 107-39.

Anna Clark, "Queen Caroline and the Sexual Politics of Popular Culture in London, 1820," Summer 1990, 31: 47-68.

T. J. Clark, "Painting in the Year Two," Summer 1994, 47: 13-63.

Michael Clune, "Orwell and the Obvious," Summer 2009, 107: 30-55.

Christopher L. Connery, "Marches Through the Institutions: University Activism in the Sixties and Present," Fall 2011, 116: 88-101.

Alain Corbain, "Commercial Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France: A System of Images and Regulations" (trans. Katherine Streip), Spring 1986, 14: 209-19.

Daniel Cottom, "To Love to Hate," Fall 2002, 80: 119-38.

David Damrosch, "The Aesthetics of Conquest: Aztec Poetry Before and After Cortés," Winter 1991, 33: 101-20.

Robert Darnton, "Policing Writers in Paris Circa 1750," Winter 1984, 5: 1-32. 

Natalie Zemon Davis, "Art and Society in the Gifts of Montaigne," Fall 1985, 12: 24-32. 

Natalie Zemon Davis, "Rabelais Among the Censors (1940s, 1540s)," Fall 1990, 32: 1-32.

Antoine de Baecque, "The Allegorical Image of France, 1750-1800: A Political Crisis of Representation," Summer 1994, 47: 111-143.

Joan DeJean, "Sex and Philology: Sappho and the Rise of German Nationalism," Summer 1989, 27: 148-71.

Claudio Fogu, "Il Duce taumaturgo: Modernist Rhetorics in Fascist Representations of History," Winter 1997, 57: 24-51.

Phil Ford, "Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica," Summer 2008, 103: 107-135.

Roberta Frank, "Terminally Hip and Incredibly Cool: Carol, Vikings, and Anglo-Scandinavian England," Fall 2007, 100: 23-33.

Catherine Gallagher, "The Body Versus the Social Body in the Works of Thomas Malthus and Henry Mayhew," Spring 1986, 14: 83-106.

Catherine Gallagher, "The Politics of Culture and the Debate over Representation," Winter 1984, 5: 115-47. 

Dena Goodman, "Pigalle's Voltaire nu: The Republic of Letters Represents Itself to the World," Fall 1986, 16: 86-109. 

Irene Gorak, "Enter Beadle with Whips: Pauline Smith's The Beadle and the Afrikaner as Fetish," Summer 1993, 43: 73-88.

Stephen Greenblatt, "Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre, and the Representation of Rebellion," Winter 1983, 1: 1-30.

Janet E. Halley, "Heresy, Orthodoxy, and the Politics of Religious Discourse:  The Case of the English Family of Love," Summer 1986, 15: 98-120. 

Timothy Hampton, "'Turkish Dogs': Rabelais, Erasmus, and the Rhetoric of Alterity," Winter 1993, 41: 58-82.

Richard Helgerson, "The Land Speaks: Cartography, Chorography, and Subversion in Renaissance England," Fall 1986, 16: 50-85.

Jochen Hellbeck, "With Hegel to Salvation: Bukharin's Other Trial," Summer 2009, 107: 56-90.

Jerry Herron, "Homer Simpson's Eyes and the Culture of Late Nostalgia," Summer 1993, 43: 1-26.

Neil Hertz, "Medusa's Head: Male Hysteria Under Political Pressure," Fall 1983, 4: 27-54. 

Denis Hollier, "I've Done My Act: An Exercise in Gravity" (trans. Beverly Allen), Fall 1983, 4: 88-100.