Acknowledgements viii // Series Editor’s preface ix // Introduction xi // Part I A Short History of Stylistics // 1 Rhetoric 3 // 2 Stylistics and modern criticism 12 // 3 Textualism I: poetry 15 // 4 Textualism II: the novel 51 // 5 Contextualist stylistics 73 // Part II Stylistics and Literary History // 6 Renaissance and Augustan poetry 101 // 7 Literary style and literary history 112 // 8 Shakespeare’s drama: two stylistic registers 119 // 9 The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel 128 // 10 Romanticism 145 // 11 Modernism and naturalization 153 // Part III Gender and Evaluation // 12 Gender and genre 171 // 13 Evaluative stylistics 188 // Bibliography 206 // Index 213