Elegy for Literature is an overview of the current crisis within the academic study of literature. It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do - less as a set of literary objects, and more as a way of life.

Jeffrey T. Nealon is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy at Penn State University. He is author of numerous books in literary and social theory.

1 Endgames; 2 The Novel and New Materialism; or, Learning from Lukács; Epilogue: Where I Predictably Assert That the Kind of Thing I Do Is the Key; Notes; Index of Names.