Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-193) and index.

The rise of the disciplines -- Defining interdisciplinarity -- Interdisciplinary English -- The birth of English -- Literature, life and thought -- Leavis and the university -- The cultural project of English -- Library English in America -- The Fall of English -- 2. Literature into culture -- Founding documents -- The sociological turn -- The culture of everyday life -- Class and cultural capital -- Cultural value and the knowledge class -- 3. Theory and the disciplines -- Linguistics and literariness -- Deconstructing philosophy -- Psychoanalysis, language and culture -- Feminism and the body -- Queering the disciplines -- Theory as metadiscipline -- 4. Texts in history -- Literature and history -- Marxism and culture -- Knowledge and power -- Textual historicities -- Shakespeare and Englit -- 5. Science, space and nature -- The challenge to empiricism -- Science as culture -- Geography as text -- Ecocriticism and science -- Theories of everything -- Conclusion: interdisciplinarity today -- The critique of interdisciplinarity -- The survival of the disciplines -- Victorian studies/cultural studies.