Chapter 1 Introduction: The crisis in English studies
Peter Widdowson; Part 1 History
theory
institutions; Chapter 2 The hidden history of English studies
Brian Doyle; Chapter 3 Common sense and critical practice: teaching literature
Tony Davies; Chapter 4 Radical critical theory and English
John Hoyles; Chapter 5 Post-structuralism
reading and the crisis in English
Peter Brooker; Chapter 6 The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Michael Green; Chapter 7 Teaching literature in the Open University
Graham Martin; Chapter 8 'English' and the Council for National Academic Awards
John Oakley
Elizabeth Owen; Part 2 Case studies; Chapter 9 Re-reading the great tradition
Catherine Belsey; Chapter 10 Poetry and the politics of reading
Antony Easthope; Chapter 11 'Not for all time
but for an Age': an approach to Shakespeare studies
Derek Longhurst; Chapter 12 Period studies and the place of criticism
Carole Snee; Chapter 13 Socialist-feminist criticism: a case study
women's suffrage and literature
1906-14
Wendy Mulford; Chapter 14 Reading the lines: television and new fiction
Peter Humm; Chapter 15 Historicist criticism
David Craig
Michael Egan; Chapter 16 Text and history
Tony Bennett;
