本书对英国及爱尔兰19世纪以来的文学与文化研究进行了系统介绍，内容涉及相关研究的关键人物，如Samuel TaylorColeridge, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Pater,Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, I.A. Richards,William Empson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot,J.L. Austin, Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Terry Eagleton, 并涉及重要的流派和发展趋势。每章后面附有阅读书目。

本书对英国及爱尔兰19世纪以来的文学与文化研究进行了系统介绍，内容涉及相关研究的关键人物，如Samuel TaylorColeridge, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Pater,Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, I.A. Richards,William Empson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot,J.L. Austin, Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Terry Eagleton, 并涉及重要的流派和发展趋势，如The Cambridge School, Speech-Act Theory, The Emergence of Cultural Studies, The Structuralist Controversy, The Spread of Literary Theory in Britain, Cultural Materialism, British Poststructuralism since 1968, Developments in Literary Theory since 1995。每章后面附有阅读书目。

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,

Scrutiny and Literary Studies in Britain

  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

  NiaU 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. Psychoanalysis in Literary and Cultural Studies

Leigh Wilson

23. Feminism, Materialism and the Debate on

Postmodernism in British Universities

Gillian Howie

24. British Poststructuralism since 1968

Martin McQuillan

25. Developments in Literary Theory since 1995

Peter Barry

Contributors

Index