Thomas Docherty is Professor of English at Warwick University. He has published on most areas of English and comparative literature from the Renaissance to the present day. He specializes in the philosophy of literary criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Some of his previous publications include John Donne Undone (Methuen/Routledge, 1986), Postmodernism (Harvester/Columbia UP, 1993), Aesthetic Democracy (Stanford UP, 2006) and The English Question (Sussex Academic, 2008).

Introduction
Chapter 1 On Pluck: English and Money
Chapter 2 English Nativism and Linguistic Xenophobia
Chapter 3 Fundamentalist English; or The Stiff Upper Lip
Chapter 4 On Truth and Lying in a Political Sense
Chapter 5 Words, Deeds, and Democracy
Chapter 6 Profanity and Free Speech
Chapter 7 Remnants of Dissent

Index