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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Falling into Theory | |
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| Why We Read: The University, the Humanities, and the Province of Literature | |
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| What We Have Loved, Others Will Love | |
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| Disliking Books at an Early Age | |
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| The Rise of English | |
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| Introduction to Masks of Conquest | |
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| The "Banking" Concept of Education | |
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| Toward a Revolutionary Feminist Pedagogy | |
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| The New Advocacy and the Old | |
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| The Function of English at the Present Time | |
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| Teaching Culture | |
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| The Demise of Disciplinary Authority | |
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| A Fortunate Fall? | |
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| What We Read: The Literary Canon and the Curriculum after the Culture Wars | |
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| Masterpiece Theater: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation | |
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| Contingencies of Value | |
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| Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon | |
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| What Is a Minor Literature? | |
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| Canon-Formation, Literary History, and the Afro-American Tradition: From the Seen to the Told | |
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| From Epistemology of the Closet | |
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| The Politics of Knowledge | |
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| Introduction to A Feeling for Books | |
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| Telling Our Story about Teaching Literature | |
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| The Canon as Cultural Capital | |
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| Elegiac Conclusion | |
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| How We Read: Interpretive Communities and Literary Meaning | |
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| The Death of the Author | |
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| Actual Reader and Authorial Reader | |
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| How to Recognize a Poem When You See One | |
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| Do We Write the Text We Read? | |
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| The Female Swerve | |
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| From Sexual/Textual Politics | |
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| Dancing through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism | |
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| Black Matter(s) | |
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| An Image of Africa | |
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| The Frontier on Which Heart of Darkness Stands | |
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| Imperialism and Sexual Difference | |
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| Who Is Responsible in Ethical Criticism, and for What? | |
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| The Literary Imagination | |
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| Wanted Dead or Alive: Browning's Historicism | |
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| Reclaiming the Aesthetic | |
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| Aesthetics and the Literal Imagination | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |