Contents

PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

Introduction

1.   The Beginnings of English Literary Study

2.   Praeparatio Evangelica

3.   “One Power, One Mind”

4.   Rewriting English

5.   Lessons of History

6.   The Failure of English

7.   Conclusion: Empire and the Western Canon

 

NOTES

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX