Reading between the lines /

For those exhausted by the highly charged debates and polarized climate of literary studies today, Annabel Patterson's Reading Between the Lines offers a strategic compromise: a moderate stance between the radical opponents and the zealous protectors of the traditional Western canon._ She recon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patterson, Annabel M
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1993], ©1993
Madison, Wis. : c1993
Madison, Wis. : ©1993
Madison, Wis. : [1993]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. "Just Reading" or Reading Plato's Laws
  • 2. Couples, Canons, and the Uncouth: Spenser-and-Milton
  • 3. A Petitioning Society
  • 4. The Egalitarian Giant: Representations of Justice in History/Literature
  • 5. The Small Cat Massacre: Popular Culture in the 1587 "Holinshed"
  • 6. Quod oportet versus quod convenit: John Donne, Kingsman?
  • 7. The Good Old Cause. The Republican's Library. "The Civil War is not ended": Milton's Modern Readers
  • 8. Sleeping with the Enemy. Milton Uncouples Himself. The Rape of Lucrece. Sleeping with the Enemy
  • Postscript: The Return from Theory
  • 1 "Just Reading" or Reading Plato's Laws
  • 2. Couples, Canons, and the Uncouth: Spenser-and-Milton
  • 3. A Petitioning Society
  • 4. The Egalitarian Giant: Representations of Justice in History/Literature
  • 5. The Small Cat Massacre: Popular Culture in the 1587 "Holinshed"
  • 6. Quod oportet versus quod convenit: John Donne, Kingsman?
  • 7. The Good Old Cause. The Republican's Library. "The Civil War is not ended": Milton's Modern Readers
  • 8. Sleeping with the Enemy. Milton Uncouples Himself. The Rape of Lucrece. Sleeping with the Enemy. Postscript: The Return from Theory.