Introduction by David R. Shumway and Craig Dionne
PART I. EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH
1. Child's Ballads: Narrating Histories of Composition and Literary Studies
Patricia Harkin
2. Institutionalizing English: Rhetoric on the Boundaries
David R. Russell
3. A Short History of a Border War: Social Science, School Reform, and the Study of Literature
Elizabeth A. Wilson
4. Period Making and the Discipline: A Genealogy of the Idea of the Renaissance in ELH
Craig Dionne
5. Emerson and the Shape of American Literature
David R. Shumway
6. The Posttheory Generation
Jeffrey J. Williams
PART II. THE CURRENT ARRANGEMENTS
7. Composing Literary Studies in Graduate Courses
John Schilb
8. Inventing Gender: Creative Writing and Critical Agency
Molly Hite
9. Profiting Pedants: Symbolic Capital, Text Editing, and Cultural Reproduction
Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman
10. A New Kind of Work: Publishing, Theory, and Cultural Studies
Ronald Schleifer
11. What Hath English Wrought: The Corporate University's Fast Food Discipline
Cary Nelson
Afterword by Richard Ohmann
Contributors
Index