Double Vision

Darby Lewes is professor of English at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania.

• 1 Contents2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 Introduction: Homotextuality: Revealed and Revealing TextsPart 4 I. The Eighteenth Century: From Reason to RomanticismChapter 5 1. Richardson Agonistes: The Trial of the Author in the Contest for AuthorityChapter 6 2. Marginal(ized) Blake: The Annotations to Reynolds's DiscoursesChapter 7 3. William Blake and the Bible: Reading and Writing the LawChapter 8 4. The Dark Assassin: Thomas James Mathias's Notes for The Pursuits of LiteraturePart 9 II. The Romantic Period: Overwriting NeoclassicismChapter 10 5. De Quincey and the PalimpsestChapter 11 6. "Things as They Are": Godwin's Caleb Williams and the Politics of the PrefaceChapter 12 7. Opening up Chapter 13 of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria: Humor, Reception, and English CharacterPart 13 III. The Victorian Period: Decorum and DecadenceChapter 14 8. Tennyson's The Princess as Palimpsest: The Oriental Tale and Woman's NatureChapter 15 9. "What Remains?": Intertextual Itinerary and Palimpsestic Melancholia in Christina Rossetti's "Monna Innomminata"Chapter 16 10. Memory as a Palimpsest in Wilkie Collins's The Haunted HotelChapter 17 11. On the Fin de Siècle Margin: Justifying the Texts of T. K. Nupton, Max Beerbohm, and Enoch SoamesChapter 18 12. Parodies for the Rail: Dombey and Son, Vanity Fair, and the Class-Coding of Victorian RealismPart 19 IV. Nineteenth-Century Voices from AmericaChapter 20 13. The Middle Passages of Arthur MervynChapter 21 14. Reading Poe Reading Blackwood's: The Palimpsestic Subtext in "The Fall of the House of Usher"Chapter 22 15. The Spaces Left: Resistance and Erasure in Frederick Douglass's Palimpsestic NarrativesChapter 23 Works CitedChapter 24 Index25 About the Contributors

Taken together, the chapters of this book . . . make a real contribution to the field.