Thirteen contributions from Williams (English, U. of Missouri) and other academics consider how institutional practices, protocols, and structures mediate and produce what we call literature. Essays in the first half focus on how certain critical practices and discourses have become established in t

Jeffrey J. Williams is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. He is the author of Theory and the Novel: Narrative Reflexivity in the British Tradition and editor of PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy.