Helen Small is Fellow in English Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford. She is currently the holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2001-2004), and is writing a book on the philosophy and literature of aging.

"[...]this is a fascinating, engaging example of the fecundity of the human intellect." Library Journal

• List of Contributors. Acknowledgments.Introduction (Helen Small).1. The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals (Edward W. Said).2. Pre-modern Intellectual Biography (Rita Copeland).3. Humanism, Slavery, and the Republic of Letters (David Wallace).4. Hamlet the Intellectual (Margreta de Grazia).5. Deaths of the Intellectual: A Comparative Autopsy (Jeremy Jennings).6. New Art, Old Masters, and Masked Passions (Linda S. Kauffman).7. Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual in the Modern World (Jacqueline Rose).8. The Sweatshop Sublime (Bruce Robbins).9. "Every Fruit-Juice Drinker, Nudist, Sandal-Wearer…": Intellectuals as Other People (Stefan Collini).Index.