Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Arnold 1
5. 2. John Ruskin and Walter Pater: Aesthetics and the State 8
6. 3. Oscar Wilde: Aesthetics and Criticism 16
7. 4. The Cambridge School: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, I. A. Richards and William Empson 23
8. 5. James Joyce: Theories of Literature 31
9. 6. Virginia Woolf: Aesthetics 38
10. 7. T. S. Eliot 49
11. 8. After the `Cambridge School': F. R. Leavis, Scrutiny and Literary Studies in Britain 56
12. 9. J. L. Austin and Speech-Act Theory 61
13. 10. Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams and the Emergence of Cultural Studies 67
14. 11. Raymond Williams 75
15. 12. Stuart Hall 84
16. 13. Terry Eagleton 89
17. 14. Screen 94
18. 15. Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy 101
19. 16. The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain 108
20. 17. Feminism and Poststructuralism 116
21. 18. Cultural Studies 126
22. 19. Cultural Materialism 135
23. 20. Postcolonial Studies 142
24. 21. Gay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory 150
25. 22. Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Post-Marxism 157
26. 23. Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies 167
27. 24. Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities 176
28. 25. British Poststructuralism since 1968 185
29. 26. Developments in Literary Theory since 1995 190
30. Contributors 198
31. Index 199