Description: "Two leading critics grapple with problems of literature, politics, and intellectual practice"--
Review Quotes: "An epic debate over the proper relation between culture and politics."
--Bruce Robbins, boundary 2
--Nicholas Dames, Public Books "Absorbing reading ... A debate between two of the UK's most prominent critics and historians of criticism that ultimately rippled outward to include intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic."
--Julianne Werlin, The Chronicle of Higher Education