Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. I. Politics and the Canon
5. 1. The Impact of Shakespeare: Goethe to Melville 3
6. 2. The Media of Sublimity: Johnson and Lamb on King Lear 24
7. 3. Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the History of Character 34
8. 4. The Struggle for the Cultural Heritage: Christina Stead Refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain 47
9. 5. The Birth of Huck’s Nation 62
10. II. Language and Reality in the Age of the Novel
11. 6. Narrative Form and Social Sense in Bleak House and The French Revolution 79
12. 7. Rhetoric and Realism: Hyperbole in The Mill on the Floss 94
13. 8. Rhetoric and Realism; or, Marxism, Deconstruction, and Madame Bovary 111
14. 9. Baudelaire’s Impure Transfers: Allegory, Translation, Prostitution, Correspondence 125
15. 10. Huckleberry Finn without Polemic 155
16. Notes 169
17. Index 195