Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 A Brief Essay on Taste 5
2 The Dreadful Legacy of Modernism 44
3 Is Shakespeare Any Good? 90
4 Mad Theories 131
5 Defining Literature: The Bête Noir of Academia 166
6 Evaluation 193
7 Popular Literature 243
8 Is Literature Any Good For Us? 272
References 321
Index 326
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