Spenser's Arcadia

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor's Introduction i*
4. Part I. The Literary and Philosophical Debate
5. The Mimetic Bias in Modern Anglo-American Criticism 1
6. Subversive Mimesis 27
7. Mimesis and Contemporary French Theory 65
8. Part II. Model and Copy (1)
9. Spenser's Arcadia 109
10. Simulation and Imagination 141
11. Idolology 172
12. Part III. Model and Copy (2)
13. Following the Classics 201
14. On the Refraction of Texts 217
15. Mimesis, Mediation and Counterfeit 238
16. Suggestions for Further Reading 276
17. List of Contributors 281
18. Index of Names 282