Names hidden by acrostic or anagram, pseudonyms, pen-names, nicknames, nameless characters, and lists of names are all explored in this erudite and fascinating book, which encompasses literature from ancient times to modern.
Names hidden by acrostic or anagram, pseudonyms, pen-names, nicknames, nameless characters, and lists of names are all explored in this erudite and fascinating book, which encompasses literature from ancient times to modern.
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.
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Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1: Naming in History 2: Modes of Naming 3: Ihe 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
