Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Part One: Critique
6. Chapter One. Canonical and Noncanonical: The Current Debate 3
7. Part Two: Case Studies
8. Chapter Two. Mute Inglorious Miltons: Gray, Wordsworth, and the Vernacular Canon 85
9. Chapter Three. Ideology and Canonical Form: The New Critical Canon 134
10. Chapter Four. Literature after Theory: The Lesson of Paul de Man 176
11. Part Three: Aesthetics
12. Chapter Five. The Discourse of Value: From Adam Smith to Barbara Herrnstein Smith 269
13. Notes 341
14. Index 385