First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Chapter 1 Forms of English fiction in 1848, Raymond Williams; Chapter 2 Baudelaire and the city: 1848 and the inscription of hegemony, Colin Mercer; Chapter 3 Religion and ideology: a political reading of Paradise Lost, Fredric Jameson; Chapter 4 The Romantic construction of the unconscious, Catherine Belsey; Chapter 5 The trial of Warren Hastings, David Musselwhite; Chapter 6 Bakhtin, Marxism and post-structuralism, Graham Pechey; Chapter 7 National Language, Education, Literature, Renée Balibar; Chapter 8 The Other Question: Difference, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism, Homi K. Bhabha; Chapter 9 Images of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a history of the present, Simon Barker; Chapter 10 Towards a Grammatology of America: Lévi-Strauss, Derrida and the Native New World Text, Gordon Brotherston; Chapter 11 Orientalism Reconsidered, Edward W. Said;