Literary Names Personal Names in English Literature

by Fowler, Alastair

• ISBN13: 9780198709688
• ISBN10: 0198709684
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-07-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Alastair Fowler is Regius Professor Emeritus of Edinburgh University, and was previously Professor of English at the University of Virginia. For many years he divided his time between the United States and Britain, where he now lives. His publications include an annotated edition of Paradise Lost (1968); Kinds of Literature (1982); and Renaissance Realism (2003). His interest in literary names goes back to his Witter Byner lecture at Harvard in 1974.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Naming in History
2. Modes of Naming
3. I^{he Faerie Queene}
4. Hidden Names
5. Shakespeare
6. Milton's Changing Names
7. Assumed and Imposed Names
8. Thackeray and Dickens
9. Arrays
10. Joyce and Nabokov
Afterword
References
Glossary
Index