Double Vision Book

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: Homotextuality: Revealed and Revealing Texts xi

Part I The Eighteenth Century: From Reason to Romanticism

1 Richardson Agonistes: The Trial of the Author in the Context for Authority William Wandless 3

2 Marginal(ized) Blake: The Annotations to Reynolds' Discourses Darby Lewes 15

3 William Blake and the Bible: Reading and Writing the Law Michael Farrell 27

4 The Dark Assassin: Thomas James Mathias' Notes for The Pursuits Of Literature Alex Watson 37

Part II The Romantic Period: Overwriting Neoclassicism

5 De Quincey and the Palimpsest Christopher Whalen 55

6 "Things as they Are": Godwin's Caleb Williams and the Politics of the Preface Jeff Miles 69

7 Opening up Chapter 13 of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria: Humor, Reception, and English Character Brian Bates 83

Part III The Victorian Period: Decorum and Decadence

8 Tennyson's The Princess as Palimpsest: The Oriental Tale and Woman's Nature Christy Rieger 105

9 "What Remains?": Intertextual Itinerary and Palimpsestic Melancholia in Christina Rossetti's "Monna Innomminata" Erin Menut 117

10 Memory as a Palimpsest in Wilkie Collins's The Haunted Hotel Laurence Talairach-Vielmas 149

11 On the Fin de Siecle Margin: Justifying the Texts of T. K. Nupton, Max Beerbohm and Enoch Soames Paul Fox 163

12 Parodies for the Rail: Dombey and Son, Vanity Fair, and the Class-Coding of Victorian Realism Michael J. Flynn 173

Part IV Nineteenth-century Voices from America

13 The Middle Passages of Arthur Mervyn Liam Corley 207

14 Reading Poe Reading Blackwood's: The Palimpsestic Subtext in "The Fall of the House of Usher"Diane Long Hoeveler 227

15 The Spaces Left: Resistance and Erasure in Frederick Douglass's Palimpsestic Narratives Zoe Trodd 239

Works Cited 249

Index 261

About the Contributors 271