Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Literary Criticism.
Introduction.
1. The Novels of D. H. Lawrence.
2. Nature and the Fall in Hopkins: A Reading of 'God's Grandeur' (1973).
3. Thomas Hardy and Jude the Obscure (1974).
4. Wuthering Heights (1975).
5. Shakespeare and the Letter of the Law (1986).
6. Tony Harrison's V (1986).
7. Estrangement and Irony in the Fiction of Milan Kundera (1987).
Part II: Cultural Politics/Sexual Politics.
Introduction.
8. The Idea of a Common Culture (1967).
9. Tennyson: Politics and Sexuality in The Princess and In Memoriam (1978).
10. The Rape of Clarissa (1982).
11. The Crisis in Contemporary Culture (1992).
12. Body Work (1993).
Part III: Marxism and Critical Theory.
Introduction.
13. Ideology and Literary Form (1976).
14. Walter Benjamin: Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981).
15. Human Rights and Deconstruction (1992).
16. Ideology (1994).
17. Marxist Literary Theory (1995).
18. Marxism without Marxism: Jacques Derrida and Specters of Marx (1995).
Part IV: Modernism and Postmodernism.
Introduction.
19. The End of English (1987).
20. Modernism, Myth, and Monopoly Capitalism (1989).
21. Defending the Free World (1990).
22. The Right and the Good: Postmodernism and the Liberal State (1994).
Part V: Friends and Philosophers.
Introduction.
23. Resources for a Journey of Hope: Raymond Williams (1989).
24. The Death of Desire: Arthur Schopenhauer (1990).
25. My Wittgenstein (1994).
Part VI: Ireland's Own.
Introduction.
26. History and Myth in Yeats's 'Easter' 1916 (1971).
27. Nationalism: Irony and Commitment (1988).
28. Saint Oscar (1989).
29. Unionism and Utopia: The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney (1991).
30. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (1995).
The Ballad of Marxist Criticism.
Bibliography.
Index.
