ABSTRACT

Written with characteristic verve, Quotation Marks considers, among other subjects, how we depend upon the most quotable men and women in history, using great writers to bolster what we ourselves have to say. The entertaining turns and reversals of Marjorie Garber's arguments offer the rare pleasure of a true essayist.

chapter 1|26 pages

“ ” (Quotation Marks)

chapter 2|14 pages

Fashionable

chapter 3|12 pages

Try-Works

chapter 4|14 pages

Make-Work

chapter 5|10 pages

Sequels

chapter 6|22 pages

Vegetable Love

chapter 7|16 pages

A Case of Mstaken Identity

chapter 8|26 pages

Moniker

chapter 9|30 pages

MacGuffÏn Shakespeare

chapter 10|22 pages

Historical Correctness

The Use and Abuse of History for Literature

chapter 11|12 pages

The Jane Austen Syndrome

chapter 12|20 pages

Fatal Cleopatra

chapter 13|12 pages

Compassion

chapter 14|26 pages

Who Owns “Human Nature”?