Reading Between the Lines

Name: Reading Between the Lines
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ISBN: 9780299135409

ISBN-10: 0299135403

ISBN-13: 9780299135409

Edition: 1992

Authors: Annabel M. Patterson

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For those exhausted by the highly charged debates and polarized climate of literary studies today, Annabel Patterson’sReading Between the Linesoffers a strategic compromise: a moderate stance between the radical opponents and the zealous protectors of the traditional Western canon. She reconsiders the value of reading the white, male, canonical writers of antiquity and of early modern England, finding in them a set of values different from those supposed by both sides in the Great Books quarrel. Rather than being the unthinking or deliberate promoters of political or cultural uniformity, these writers subjected such conventional notions to critical scrutiny and even promoted…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 12/15/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Just Reading or Reading Plato's Laws



Couples, Canons, and the Uncouth: Spenser-And-Milton



A Petitioning Society



The Egalitarian Giant: Representations of Justice in History/Literature



The Small Cat Massacre: Popular Culture in the 1587 "Holinshed"



Quod Oportet versus Quod Convenit: John Donne, Kingsman?



The Good Old Cause



Sleeping with the Enemy


Postscript: The Return from Theory


Index