CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Pursuit of Error: Philology, Rhetoric, and the History of Scholarship
CHAPTER ONE
Errata: Mistakes and Masters in the Early Modern Book
CHAPTER TWO
Sublime Philology: An Elegy for Anglo-Saxon Studies
CHAPTER THREE
My Casaubon: The Novel of Scholarship and Victorian Philology
CHAPTER FOUR
Ardent Etymologies: American Rhetorical Philology, from Adams to de Man
CHAPTER FIVE
Making Mimesis: Exile, Errancy, and Erich Auerbach
EPILOGUE
Forbidden Planet
and the Terrors of Philology
NOTES
INDEX