Geoffrey Hartman, The Fate of Reading and Other Essays

Eddie Yeghiayan

• The Fate of Reading and Other Essays. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
  Contents:
  (Previously published essays. Items marked with * published for the first time.)

  • Preface:vii-xvi.
    
  Part One
  
  • The Interpreter: A Self-Analysis:3-19.
    
  • I.A. Richards and the Dream of Communication:20-40.
    
  • War in Heaven: A Review of Harold Bloom's `The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry':41- 56.
    
  • Spectral Symbolism and Authorial Self in Keats's `Hyperion':
    
  • Christopher Smart's `Magnificat': Toward a Theory of Representation:74-98.
    
  Part Two
  
  • History Writing as Answerable Style:101-113.
    
  • From the Sublime to the Hermeneutic:114-123.
    
  • Poem and Ideology: A Study of Keats's `To Autumn':124-146.
    
  • Evening Star and Evening Land: 147-178.
    
  • Wordsworth and Goethe in Literary History:179-200.
    
  Part Three
  
  • *Literature High and Low: The Case of the Mystery Story:203- 222.
    
  • *Valéry's Fable of the Bee:223-247.
    
  • *The Fate of Reading:248-274.
    
  Part Four
  
  • On the Theory of Romanticism:277-283.
    
  • *Self, Time, and History:284-293.
    
  • Lionel Trilling as Man in the Middle:294-302.
    
  • Signs of the Times: A Review of Three Books:303-314.

• Paperback, 1976.

• Excerpts from "War in Heaven" reprinted under the heading "Harold Bloom" in Sharon R. Gunton, ed., Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 24, pp. 76-79. Detroit, Michigan: Gale research, 1983.

• Excerpts from "Poem and Ideology: A Study of Keats's `To Autumn'" reprinted in Laurie Lanzen Harris and Emily B. Tennyson, eds., Nineteenth-Century Literature, Volume 8, pp. 379-383. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Researc h, 1985.

• "From the Sublime to the Hermeneutic" translated into Italian by Sandra Cavicchioli as "Dal sublime all'ermeneutica" in Marshall Brown, Vita Fortunati and Giovanna Franci, eds., La via al sublime: sei saggi americani, pp. 25-36. (Saggi e documenti, 55) Florence: Alinea, 1987.