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;