Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
3. ERRATA x
4. CONTENTS xi
5. ILLUSTRATION xiv
6. TABLES xiv
7. ABBREVIATIONS xv
8. PART I. CHRONICLE, ART, AND THOUGHT
9. HISTORY AND ARGUMENT 3
10. THE DEVOUT STOCKADE 26
11. AN APOLOGY FOR REVOLT 35
12. THE RE-CREATION OF GENESIS 66
13. IMAGES FROM PARADISE AND BEYOND 77
14. A MEDLEY OF LANGUAGE 91
15. A METRICAL HERESY 109
16. THE MANUSCRIPT AND THE TEXT 132
17. PART II. TEXT, VARIANTS, AND ANNOTATIONS
18. A Text of the Play with Notes and Variants 153
19. ANNOTATIONS 259
20. CAIN AND THE MYSTERIES 297
21. SOME POSSIBLE SOURCES AND PARALLELS FOR ACT II 300
22. PART III. A SURVEY OF Cain CRITICISM
23. THE OPINIONS OF BYRON'S SOCIAL AND LITERARY CIRCLE 309
24. THE MAJOR PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS (1821-1830) 330
25. THE VICTORIAN APPROACH TO CAIN (1831-1899) 427
26. CAIN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 453
27. BIBLIOGRAPHY 475
28. INDEX 495