Fish has written a very stylish, muscular little book arguing that the enemies of literary study are the new Historicism and cultural studies, and that more professionalism just might save the sinking ship.
   --Rick Perlstein, The Nation

The book is by far the most powerful critique yet written of recent developments in academic humanities that have made interdisciplinary boundary crossing, cultural studies, and politically oriented textual analysis the dominant trend. Fish writes with a wit and dash that make him every bit as readable as the most nasty neocons while being vastly better informed.
   --Gerald Graff, Professor of English, University of Chicago

Stanley Fish is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His many books include There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.

Read More by Stanley Fish:

• Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
• The Trouble with Principle
• Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition, With a New Preface by the Author
• How Milton Works