Loving Literature
A Cultural History
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Introduction: At Home in English
Part 1: Choosing an Author as You Choose a Friend
Chapter 1: Making It Personal
Part 2: Possessive Love
Chapter 2: Literary History and the Man Who Loved Too Much
Chapter 3: Wedded to Books: Nineteenth-Century Bookmen at Home
Part 3: English Literature for Everyday Use
Chapter 4: Going Steady: Canons’ Clockwork
Part 4: Dead Poets Societies
Chapter 5: Canon Love in Gothic Libraries
Chapter 6: Poetry at Death’s Door
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Phi Beta Kappa: Christian Gauss Award
Short Listed
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Oscar Kenshur Book Prize
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History: European History
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
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