This text is a defence of the western literary canon which the author sees being eroded by the tyranny of cultural studies and political correctness in the academic and literary world. It is both a survey of the great authors from Dante to Beckett that make up the canon, with Shakespeare at its centre, as well as a polemical assault on the forces that are trying to diminish it.
- ISBN10 0333699157
- ISBN13 9780333699157
- Publish Date 6 December 1996 (first published 27 January 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 February 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Papermac
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 578
- Language English