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TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Failure of Theory -- Two Case Studies: (i) Catherine Belsey and Classic Realism (ii) The Myth of Terry Eagleton -- On Disagreement and the Public Domain -- Culture and Society in the 1980s -- Utopia and …

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Failure of Theory -- Two Case Studies: (i) Catherine Belsey and Classic Realism (ii) The Myth of Terry Eagleton -- On Disagreement and the Public Domain -- Culture and Society in the 1980s -- Utopia and Negativity in Raymond Williams -- Revolutionising the Canon: From Proletarian Literature to Literary Theory -- The Age of Fantasy -- Pilgrim's Progress: The Novels of B.S. Johnson -- Descents into Hell: The Later Novels of Doris Lessing -- Muriel Spark and Her Critics -- Orwell and Burgess: Two versions of Cacotopia -- A Novel for Our Time: V.S. Naipaul's Geurrillas

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