Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Wyatt's "They flee from me": Sexual Politics and Metrical History
2. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: Framing the Outsiders
3. Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: Men Reading and Writing a Woman
4. Shakespeare's Sonnets: Courtly Patronage and the Homoerotic
5. Milton's Paradise Lost: Republican Politics and the Canon
6. Marvell, Winstanley, Milton: Gardens, Communes, and Losing Paradise
7. Swift's Gulliver's Travels: Colonialism and Eden Lost again
8. Johnson and Others: Toryism, The Slave-Trade, Poverty, Being and Reading a Character
9. Wordsworth's Poems of Boyhood: Myths of Initiation in Revolutionary Times
10. Bronte's Wuthering Heights: Three-Volume Novels, Centers, and Loss
11. Melville's Bartleby: The Crisis of Interpretation
12. Dickinson's Poems: Women Writing the Inexpressible
13. Dickens's Our Mutual Friend: Between Men, Education, and Law
14. Carroll's "Alice" Books: Remembering the Love-Gift
15. Wilde's The Happy Price: Sex and Politics in the Fairy-Tale
16. Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper": The Woman's Body, Hysteria, Intertextuality
17. James's The Turn of the Screw: Desire in Loss and the Reader-Response
18. Conrad's The Secret Agent: Journeying into Political Vision
19. Green's Living: The Working Class in Modernism and the Search for the Father
20. Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight: Women in Colonialism and Framed in Exhibition
21. Williams's Drama: Realism in the Theater, Policing the Allowable on Stage and in Film
22. Hill's "September Song": The Modern Poet inHistory, The Poem's right to Exist
23. Beckett's Not I: Challenging the Audience with a Life, Lost
24. Bishop and Berryman's Poems: How to Lose, and Loss in This Book
Appendix: Ovid's "Narcissus"
