Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, with the Department of English and Drama, at Loughborough University. He has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, and theoretical approaches to literature. His most recent books are Thomas Hardy and Literature, in Theory. He is currently working on The Derrida Wordbook (EUP) and a study of the relation between philosophy and poetry in the nineteenth century.

Preface; 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.