The Routinization of Crisis Government Donald L. Robinson 161
A Defense of Academic Research Thomas Mayer 175
Black Words and Black Becoming Frank D. McConnell 193
The Net of Incest E. A. Carruthers 211
The Root and the Flower, Dostoevsky and Turgenev: A Comparative Esthetic Robert Louis Jackson 228
Dreaming Bear. Verse Glover Davis 251
New Books in Review: Coleridge’s Plagiarisms Once More: A Review Essay Thomas McFarland 252
Victorians A. Dwight Culler 287
Revolution and Revolutionaries Peter Demetz 291
History in the Writing Andrew Ezergailis 296
TV: That’s the Way It is William Lee Miller 305
Literature and Myth Martin Lebhowitz 308
Science in Review: Teleos Logos Paul Colinvaux 312
New Records in Review B. H. Haggin 317
Reader’s Guide vi-xxxiv
Contributors xxxiv