Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Notes on Contributors xix
6. Introduction xxiii
7. Problems in Chaucer's Description of Women 1
8. Time and Colin Clout, the Shepherd 19
9. The Concept of the Royal in Shakespeare 30
10. Time and Truth in King Lear 49
11. Exit the Fool 84
12. The Decadence of John Ford's Tragedies 101
13. "Celestial Light": The Irradiating Ideas of Paradise Lost 115
14. George Etherege and the Destiny of Restoration Comedy 156
15. Who is Lucy?– On the Structure of Wordsworthian Imagination 170
16. The Involuntary Memory as Discovered by Coleridge 187
17. The Implications of Dejection: An Ode 199
18. The Education of George Gissing 233
19. The Dissociation of Ideas in Whitman's Democratic Vistas 259
20. Isabel's Freedom: On Henry James's Portrait of a Lady 271
21. Τ. S. Eliot on Hamlet and His Problems 286
22. Index 301