Double vision : literary palimpsests of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / edited by Darby Lewes.

Other author Lewes, Darby, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2008.
Descriptionxxii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
English literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
English literature--18th century. --History and criticism.
American literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Intertextuality.
Authors, English--19th century. --Aesthetics.
Authors, English--18th century. --Aesthetics.
Authors, American--19th century. --Aesthetics.
Authors, English--19th century. --Political and social views.
Authors, English--18th century. --Political and social views.
Authors, American--19th century. --Political and social views.

Contents Richardson Agonistes : the trial of the author in the contest for authority / William Wandless -- Marginal(ized) Blake : the annotations to Reynolds' Discourses / Darby Lewes -- William Blake and the Bible : reading and writing the law / Michael Farrell -- The dark assassin : Thomas James Mathias' notes for The pursuits of literature / Alex Watson -- De Quincey and the palimpsest / Christopher Whalen -- "Things as they are" : Godwin's Caleb Williams and the politics of the preface / Jeff Miles -- Opening up chapter 13 of Coleridge's Biographia literaria : humor, reception, and English character / Brian Bates -- Tennyson's The princess as palimpsest : the Oriental tale and woman's nature / Christy Rieger -- "What remains?" : intertextual itinerary and palimpsestic melancholia in Christina Rossetti's "Monna innominata" / Erin Menut -- Memory as a palimpsest in Wilkie Collins's The haunted hotel / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas -- On the fin de siècle margin : justifying the texts of T.K. Nupton, Max Beerbohm and Enoch Soames / Paul Fox -- Parodies for the rail : Dombey and Son, Vanity Fair, and the class-coding of Victorian realism / Michael J. Flynn -- The middle passages of Arthur Mervyn / Liam Corley -- Reading Poe reading Blackwood's : the palimpsestic subtext in "The fall of the house of Usher" / Diane Long Hoeveler -- The spaces left : resistance and erasure in Frederick Douglass's palimpsestic narratives / Zoe Trodd.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index.
LCCN 2008024516
ISBN9780739125694 (alk. paper)
ISBN0739125699 (alk. paper)