Table of Contents

Part 1 Essays in criticism: "Romantic Image" revisited, John Stokes; the sense of a beginning, Anthony Nuttall; secrets and surfaces, Bernard Harrison; "Secular Surrogates" - Frank Kermode and the idea of the critic, Patrick Parrinder; the history of styles as a style of history, George Hunter; the man on the dump - a response, Frank Kermode. Part 2 Essays in interpretation: the location of "Utopia" - narrative devices in a renaissance fiction, Dominic Baker-Smith; "why should he call her whore?" - defamation and Desdemona's case, Lisa Jardine; Sherlock Holmes and the adventure of the dancing men and women, Alastair Fowler; the pater of Joyce and Eliot, Richard Poirier; of "of" - the romance of a preposition, John Hollander.