Reading Between the Lines [Paperback]

Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today - `the Great Books debate - providing a superbly formulated moderate stance between the Western canon's radical oppponents and its zealous protectors.Annabel Patterson tackles the hottest topic in literary studies today - the `Great Books Debate' and the question of teaching the canon of English literature. Her superbly formulated moderate stance will be a welcome attribute to the debate.Introduction 1. Just Reading or Reading Platos Laws 2. Couples, Canons, and the Uncouth: Spenser-and Milton 3. A Petitioning Society 4. The Egalitarian Giant: Representations of Justice in History/Literature 5. The Small Cat Massacre: Popular Culture in the 1587 Holinshed 6. Quod oportet versus quod convenit: John Donne, Kingsman? 7. The Good Old Cause The Republicans Library, The Civil War is not ended: Miltons Modern Readers 8. Sleeping with the Enemy, Milton Uncouples Himself, The Rape of Lucrece, Sleeping with the Enemy, Postscript: The Return from Theory, IndexUS? 1992 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System