Quotation marks

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by  Garber, Marjorie B

Quotation Marks
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Quotation Marks
Marjorie Garber
RO Routledge
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TLED Taylor & Francis Group
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LONDON AND NEW YORK
First published 2003 by Routledge
Published 20 I 6 by Routledge
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Copyright © 2003 Marjorie Garber
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ISBN: 9780415937450 (hbk)
ISBN: 9780415937467 (pbk)
library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garber, Marjorie B.
Quotation marks I Matjorie Garber.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-415-93745-0 (hardback)-ISBN 978-0-415-93746-7 (pbk)
l. English literature-History and criticism-Theory, etc. 2. American literature
History and criticism-Theory, etc. 3. literature-History and criticism-Theory, etc.
4. literary forgeries and mystifications. 5. Influence (literary, artistic, etc.) 6.
Quotation in literature. 7. Sequels (literature) 8. Allusions. I. Tide.
PR21 .G37 2002
820.9-dc21
2002003450
Cover art: Quotation mark from Caslon 224 Black.
Book design: Karen Quigley
For Don,
the best talker I know
The correct words of a few familiar sayings that are more often wrongly than
rightly quoted may be useful.
-H.W Fowler, Dictionary of Modem Usage (1926)
Contents
Preface 1
1. " " (Quotation Marks) 7
2. Fashionable 33
3. Try-Works 47
4. Make-Work 59
5. Sequels 73
6. Vegetable Love 83
7. A Case of Mstaken Identity 105
8. Moniker 121
9. Mac Guffin Shakespeare 14 7
10. Historical Correctness 177
11. The jane Austen Syndrome 199
12. Fatal Cleopatra 211
13. Compassion 231
14. Who Owns "Human Nature"? 243
Notes 273
Index 297
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Plates
1. Janet Rickus, Two Grapefruit, 1994, oil on panel,
10 x l2 inches.
2. Janet Rickus, Cranshaw Melons, 1995, oil on panel,
18 x 22 inches.
3. Janet Rickus, Two Peppers, 1994, oil on panel,
10 x 12 inches.
4. Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Sommer, 1563, oil on canvas,
76 x 63.5 centimeters.
5. Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vertumnus, 1590-1591, oil on wood, Skoklosters
Slott Hallwyl Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
6. Janet Rickus, Blue Checked Bowl, 1994, oil on panel,
17 x 23 inches.
7. Janet Rickus, Two Gourds, 1995, oil on panel,
lO x l2 inches.
8. Janet Rickus, Two Butternut Squash, 1995, oil on panel,
16 x 20 inches.
9. Janet Rickus, Squashed Squash VII, 1994, oil on panel,
l3 x 15 inches.
10. Janet Rickus, Squashed Squash II, 1991, oil on panel,
l3 x 15 inches.
11. Janet Rickus, Three Pomegranates, 1995, oil on panel,
l2 x 15 inches.
12. Janet Rickus, Four Honeydew Melons, 1993, oil on panel,
24 x 36 inches.