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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I: Shakespeare 1. Sovereignty, Exposure, Theater: A Reading of King Lear 11 Part II: Wordsworth 2. Wordsworth on the Heath: Tragedy, Autobiography, and the Revolutionary Spectator 81 3. Poetry against Indifference: Responding to ‘‘The Discharged Soldier’’ 108 Part III: Agee and Evans 4. From the Division of Labor to the Discovery of the Common: James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 127 Notes 165 Index 177 vii ...

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