Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction: General Ends and First Essentials 1
5. 1 “The Falsest Twoo”: Forging the Scholarly Reader 26
6. 2 Una’s Line: Child Readers and the Afterlife of Fiction 50
7. 3 Mining the Text: Avid Readers in the Legend of Temperance 108
8. 4 Half-Envying: The Interested Reader and the Partial Marriage Plot 145
9. 5 Reading against Time: Crisis in The Faerie Queene 176
10. 6 Blatant Beasts: Encounters with Other Readers 216
11. Coda: Reading to the End 241
12. Acknowledgments 261
13. Notes 263
14. Index 299