Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide

Table of contents

• Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• 1: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) and Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) 1
• 2: John Ruskin (1819–1900) and Walter Pater (1839–1894) 8
• 3: Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) 16
• 4: The Cambridge School 23
• 5: James Joyce (1882–1941) 31
• 6: Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) 38
• 7: T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) 49
• 8: After the 'Cambridge School' 56
• 9: J. L. Austin (1911–1960) and Speech-Act Theory 61
• 10: Richard Hoggart (1918-), Raymond Williams (1921–1988) and the Emergence of Cultural Studies 67
• 11: Raymond Williams (1921–1988) 75
• 12: Stuart Hall (1932-) 84
• 13: Terry Eagleton (1943-) 89
• 14: Screen (1971-) 94
• 15: Structuralism and the Structuralist Controversy 101
• 16: The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain 108
• 17: Feminism and Poststructuralism 116
• 18: Cultural Studies 126
• 19: Cultural Materialism 135
• 20: Postcolonial Studies 142
• 21: Gay/Queer and Lesbian Studies, Criticism and Theory 150
• 22: Ernesto Laclau (1935-), Chantal Mouffe (1948-) and Post-Marxism 157
• 23: Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies 167
• 24: Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on Postmodernism in British Universities 176
• 25: British Poststructuralism since 1968 185
• 26: Developments in Literary Theory since 1995 190
• Contributors 198
• Index 199

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