Postmodern savages -- Last words -- The nature of Gothic -- Utopias 1 -- Utopias 2 -- Romantic poets -- Branwell Bronte -- Oscar Wilde -- W.B. Yeats -- I.A. Richards -- The Frankfurt School -- T.S. Eliot -- Georg Lukacs -- Northrop Frye -- Isaiah Berlin and Richard Hoggart -- Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Norberto Bobbio -- Jonathan Dollimore -- Peter Brooks on bodies -- Peter Brooks on confession -- Peter Conrad -- Paul de Man -- Gayatri Spivak -- Harold Bloom -- Stanley Fish -- George Steiner -- Steven Lukes -- David Harvey -- Slavoj Zizek -- Stuart Hall -- Peter Ackroyd -- Seamus Heaney -- Roy Foster -- Alan Ayckbourn and Dario Fo -- Nick Groom -- Alain Badiou -- Colin MacCabe and John Springhall -- Iris Murdoch -- James Kelman -- David Beckham -- Roy Strong.