Reading between the lines

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Reading between the lines

Annabel Patterson

Routledge, 1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

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

Introduction 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, Index

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