Contents

1. Preface
2. Introduction: Literary Intellectuals in and for a Democratic Society
3. I. CLIMBING THE WALLS: THE INTELLECTUAL AS ACADEMIC
   1. 1. At the 1986 MLA Convention
   2. 2. Teaching Literature: Where, How, and Why
   3. 3. An ABCs of Post-Theoretical Style
   4. 4. Humanists, Cultural Authority, and the University
4. II. ROADS TO THE PRESENT, PATHS TO A FUTURE
   1. 5. Modernity and Culture: The Victorians and Cultural Studies
   2. 6. The Narrative of Culture: A Burkean Perspective
   3. 7. Toward a Pragmatist Pluralism
5. References
6. Index