Preface to an Unwritten Book Paul Morgan 321
Keeping Philosophy Pure Richard Rorty 336
The Myth of Catastrophe George Watson 357
Aristocrats and Jacobins: “The Happy Few” in The Charterhouse of Parma Eugene Goodheart 370
Consumer’s Wants. A Story Jo Neace Krause 392
Two Poems Joan Stone 400
Stanzas: The Master’s Voice. Verse Irving Feldman 402
New Books in Review:
Recent Novels: A Backward Glance Maureen Howard 404
Byron: “A Problem, Like All Things” Dewey R. Faulkner 413
Letters Schooled Her Style Gordon S. Haight 419
Recent Poetry: Eight Poets Richard Howard 425
Shakespeare as Magus, Psychiatrist, and Feminist Stephen J. Greenblatt 443
The Truth about Trollope J. Hillis Miller 450
Their Less Than Infinite Variety Mary Ellmann 455
The People’s Republic of China Michael Mandelbaum 460
New Records in Review B. H. Haggin 464
Science in Review: Nuclear Power and Thermal Ecology Daniel Merriman 468
Contributors and To the Editors v
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