Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue on Configuring
Part 1: Professionals and Their Masters
1. Token Professionals and Professorial Templates
2. Canonical Critics
3. Homo Criticus Americanus
4. The Kritikroman
5. The CV as Personal History
6. The Magister Implicatus: A Configuration of Orthodoxy
Part 2: Orthodoxy and Critical Binds
7. The Compulsion to be Orthodox
8. When Bonds Becomes Binds
9. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a Counterallegory of Orthodoxy
10. The Hyde Effect
11. The Resentment of Theory
Part 3: Options and Alternatives
12. Theories Need Not Be Methods
13. Theoretical Lore
14. Error as Heuristic
15. Critical Registers
16. Who Benefits by Literary Study?
17. Rhetoric and Suffering
18. The Way in Is the Way Out
Notes
Works Cited
Name Index
Subject Index