Patrick Brantlinger Rudy Professor of English at Indiana University. He is the author of several books, includingCrusoe's Footprints, published by Routledge. His other publications include Bread and Circuses,Fictions of State, The Reading Lesson: The Threat of MassLiteracy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and Ruleof Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914.
1. Introduction: A View from the Ruins 2. Who Killed Shakespeare? What's
Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties 3. English Departments as
Heterotopias 4. Anti-Theory and Its Antithesis: Rhetoric vs. Ideology 5.
How the New Historicism Grew Old (and Gained its Tale) 6. Postcolonialism
and Its Discontents 7. Between Liberalism and Marxism: The Populism of
Cultural Studies 8. Informania U 9. Apocalypse 2001: or, What Happens after
Posthistory? 10. Works Citied
