Table of Contents:
  • Mediating Criticism; Title page; LCC data; To Tia with love; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Empathizing; Summary; Chapter 1: William Gerhardie's Chekhovianism; Chapter 2: Andrew Young's poetic secretion; Part II: Recognizing achievement; Summary; Chapter 3: The impoliteness of the Waste land; Chapter 4: Henry Vaughan's unexpectedness; Chapter 5: Decorum versus indecorum in Dombey and Son; Chapter 6: Robert Frost 's hiding and altering; Part III: Responding to hopefulness; Summary; Chapter 7: Robert Frost and childhood; Chapter 8: The pains and pleasures of David Copperfield.