Reading Between the Lines

✍ Scribed by Annab Patterson

• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 348
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today - `the Great Books debate - providing a superbly formulated moderate stance between the Western canon's radical oppponents and its zealous protectors.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Introduction......Page 12
1 “Just Reading” or Reading Plato’s Laws......Page 20
Coupling......Page 44
Uncoupling......Page 49
Recoupling......Page 51
The Uncouth......Page 54
3 A Petitioning Society......Page 64
4 The Egalitarian Giant: Representations of Justice in History/Literature......Page 86
Spenser and the Historians......Page 88
Nonreverential Reading......Page 92
Folkmotes......Page 105
Mantles and Glibs......Page 106
Bards......Page 108
Jus Politicum......Page 109
Spenser and the Postmodernists......Page 113
The Sword or the Pen......Page 118
5 The Small Cat Massacre: Popular Culture in the 1587 “Holinshed”......Page 122
6 Quod oportet versus quod convenit: John Donne, Kingsman?......Page 166
Spied Spies and Dark Doubles: The Satires......Page 173
A Jacobean Satire?......Page 183
Law versus Prerogative: Constitutional Theory......Page 189
Equivocations......Page 196
Undertaking......Page 202
Between the Lines of the Lyrics......Page 207
The Republican’s Library......Page 216
Milton and the “Republican’s Library”......Page 231
“To the end persisting”......Page 242
“The Civil War is not ended”: Reading Literary Criticism......Page 250
The Nimrodic Moment......Page 257
“Unchang’d…though fall’n on evil days”:......Page 261
The Voice from the Watchtower......Page 276
Milton Uncouples Himself......Page 282
By-ends......Page 283
The Eloquent “He Who”......Page 286
Grinding in the Mill......Page 295
The Rape of Lucrece......Page 301
“Sleeping with the Enemy”......Page 317
Postscript: The Return from Theory......Page 324
Index......Page 334
Index......Page 336