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Book SynopsisThis volume offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Arnold, Ortwin de Graef; 2. John Ruskin and Walter Pater: Aesthetics and the State, Jonathan Loesberg; 3. Oscar Wilde: Aesthetics and Criticism, Megan Becker-Leckrone; 4. The Cambridge School: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, I. A. Richards and William Empson, Jeremy Tambling; 5. James Joyce: Theories of Literature, Jean Michel Rabate; 6. Virginia Woolf: Aesthetics, Jane Goldman; 7. T. S. Eliot, K. M. Newton; 8. After the "Cambridge School": F. R. Leavis, Jeremy Tambling; 9. J. L. Austin and Speech-Act Theory, William Flesch; 10. Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams and the Emergence of Cultural Studies, David Alderson; 11. Raymond Williams, Andrew Milner; 12. Stuart Hall, John Brannigan; 13. Terry Eagleton, Moyra Haslett; 14. Screen, Antony Easthope; 15. Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy, Niall Lucy; 16. The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain, Peter Barry; 17. Feminism and Poststructuralism, Ashley Tauchert; 18. Cultural Studies, Ian Baucom; 19. Cultural Materialism, John Brannigan; 20. Postcolonial Studies, Gail Ching-Liang Low; 21. Gay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory, John M. Clum; 22. Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Post-Marxism, Paul Bowman; 23. Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies, Leigh Wilson; 24. Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities, Gillian Howie; 25. British Poststructuralism since 1968, Martin McQuillan; 26. Developments in Literary Theory since 1995, Peter Barry; Contributors; Index.
