Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER ONE Medieval Hamlet Gains a Family 3 CHAPTER TWO Hamlet's Mourning and Revenge Tragedy 26 CHAPTER THREE History, as between Goethe's Hamlet and Scott's 71 CHAPTER FOUR Hamlet's Expectations, Pip's Great Guilt 102 CHAPTER FIVE Hamlet Decides to Be a Modernist 140 Index 175

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Alexander Welsh brings such depth and focus to his investigation of Hamlet, particularly to his analyses of the hero's influence on some major novels, that this book is well worth reading. Like all Welsh's works, this one is written with acumen and style. -- Jonathan Bate, University of Liverpool

About the Author

Alexander Welsh is the Emily Sanfard Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of Freud's Wishful Dream Book. The Hero of the Waveriey Novels: With New Essays on Scott. and Reflections on the Hero as Quixote (all Princeton), as well as books on Dickens and George Eliot.

Reviews

"Alexander Welsh brings such depth and focus to his investigation of Hamlet, particularly to his analyses of the hero's influence on some major novels, that this book is well worth reading. Like all Welsh's works, this one is written with acumen and style."—Jonathan Bate, University of Liverpool