Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Foreword
Stanley Cavell
1. Everyday achievements? Literature, philosophy and criticism in the work of Stanley Cavell (James Loxley and Andrew Taylor)
2. Undoing the doer: modernist criticism and Cavell’s ‘illustrious’ style (Kevin Lamb)
3. Stanley Cavell’s modernism (R. M. Berry)
4. Cavell on the human interest of art and philosophy (Brent Kalar)
5. A soteriology of reading: Cavell’s excerpts from memory (William Day)
6. Criticism and the risk of the self: Stanley Cavell’s modernism and Elizabeth Bishop’s (Richard Eldridge)
7. How tragedy ends (Jay Bernstein)
8. Princes, frogs and crafted men: storytelling in The Claim of Reason (Áine Kelly)
9. While reading Wittgenstein (K. L. Evans)
10. The literal truth: Cavell on literality in philosophy and literature (Timothy Gould)
11. How to do things with Wordsworth (David Rudrum)
12. Philosophy/literature/criticism/film (Charles Warren)
13.Thinking in Cavell: the transcendentalist strain (Joan Richardson)
Index

About the Author

James Loxley and Andrew Taylor are both Senior Lecturers in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.