English: The Condition of the Subject

This collection discusses the condition of the subject of English in UK higher education and elsewhere. It understands 'English' not as idealistic or theoretical concept, but as practice made material in institutional, theoretical and human contexts. The book confronts what, how and why we teach one of the most popular university disciplines.

• Anglistik
• Curricula
• education
• English
• English literature
• English studies
• language

'It is a while since the subject took a long, hard look at itself and so Philip Martin's book is an invaluable and timely intervention into discussions about the position and direction of the discipline at a moment when English Studies is still deliberating ways forward after the theory wars. This stimulating collection of wide-ranging essays reveals once more the subject's diversity while registering a thoughtful anxiety over threats from without as much as undertaking a renewed scrutiny of differences of opinion within.' - Professor Peter Childs, Dean of Research, University of Gloucestershire, UK

CAROL ATHERTON Co-ordinator of A-level English, Bourne Grammar School, Lincolnshire, UK JONATHAN BATE Professor of Literature, University of Warwick, UK RONALD CARTER Professor of Modern English Language, Nottingham University, UK MARK CURRIE Professor of English, University of East Anglia, UK GARY DAY Principal Lecturer in English, De Montfort University, UK SIMON DENTITH Professor of Literature, University of Gloucestershire, UK NATASHA DISTILLER Senior Lecturer in the English Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa ROBERT EAGLESTONE Senior Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK GRAEME HARPER Professor and Head of School, University of Portsmouth, UK CRAIG HAMILTON Lecturer in Humanities, University of California at Irvine, USA MARTIN KAYMAN Professor in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, and Head of the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK REVATHI KRISHNASWAMY Teaches at San Jose State University, California, USA ANDY MOUSLEY Senior Lecturer in English, DeMontfort University, UK SHARON O'DAIR Professor of English, University of Alabama, USA MARK ROBSON Teaches at the University of Nottingham, UK LAURENCE STEVEN Teaches English at Laurentian University, Canada

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