1. Drama in a dramatized society -- Form and meaning: Hippolytus and Ph͡edre -- On dramatic dialogue and monologue (particularly in Shakespeare) -- 2. Notes on English prose 1780-1950 -- 3. David Hume: reasoning and experience -- The fiction of reform -- Forms of English fiction in 1848 -- The reader in Hard times -- 4. Cambridge English, past and present -- Crisis in English studies -- Beyond Cambridge English -- 5. Region and class in the novel -- The ragged-arsed philanthropists -- On first looking into New lines -- The tenses of imagination
