Julian Wolfeys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, where he is also Director of the Centre for Studies in Literature. He is author and editor of more than 40 books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature and literary theory. Most recently he has published Dickens’s London and The Derrida Wordbook, both with Edinburgh University Press. He recently published his first novel, Silent Music.

• 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 Rabaté; 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.