Advocates teaching lesser known plays from different historical periods and teaching popular contemporary plays in addition to the plays traditionally included in drama anthologies. (MKM)

Offers suggestions for seeking out neglected writers from all literary periods and advocates teaching the works of these writers along with the works of accepted great writers. (MKM)

Discusses the career and achievement of the British writer Matthew Arnold. Focuses on Arnold's status as a symbol of conservatism in the current culture wars. Argues for a recuperation of a true representation of Arnold's achievement. Illustrates the dangers of misrepresenting major literary figures invoked in cultural disputes. (HB)

Discusses the poststructural impulse to displace authority over texts and their meanings from the author. Questions whether poststructuralists practice an anti-intentionalist impersonalism regarding their own writings. Describes the reactions of Jacques Derrida to readings of his own work by other critics. (HB)

Suggests women writers as alternatives to traditionally taught male writers, identifies women writers as representatives of parallel tradition and genres not usually studied in a survey, and discusses some of the best feminist scholarship and criticism. (MM)

Suggests that during the 80s attempts should be made to include the works of women writers in general literature anthologies and as topics of general literature classes. (MKM)

Discusses the concepts of "American" and "unAmerican" in terms of national literature of the United States. Provides a critique of the way the literary canon of America is constructed and taught. Describes as treasonous and "unAmerican" much writing by women, as exemplified by the works of literary regionalists in the…

Reform in English studies is compromised by our tendency to talk like dilettantes, but behave like philologists. (JH)

Surveys the opportunities for research in lesbian literature. Notes the vast amount of basic work yet to be done in this field as a result of past neglect, the limited accessibility of biographical and resource materials on lesbian writers, and the negative effects of homophobia. (RL)