Table of Contents:
  • Fielding, Grub Street, and Canary Wharf / Jenny Uglow
  • Coleridge and the uses of journalism / Zachary Leader
  • De Quincey and the Edinburgh and Glasgow University circles / Grevel Lindop
  • Journalism, scholarship, and the University College London English department / John Sutherland
  • Darke conceits : Churton Collins, Edmund Gosse, and the professions of criticism / Valentine Cunningham
  • Literature, propaganda, and the First World War : the case of Blackwood's Magazine / David Finkelstein
  • 'Crimes of criticism' : Virginia Woolf and literary journalism / Hermione Lee
  • TLS in the Second World War and how to fill some gaps in modern British cultural history / Jeremy Treglown
  • Critic as journalist : Leavis after Scrutiny / Stefan Collini
  • Saving lives : Kenneth Tynan and the duties of dramatic criticism / John Stokes
  • 'Between the Saxon smile and Yankee yawp' : problems and contexts of literary reviewing in Ireland / Edna Longley
  • What we don't talk about when we talk about poetry : some aporias of literary journalism / Marjorie Perloff
  • Teachers, writers / Karl Miller
  • Living on writing / Lorna Sage.