This essay explores some of the problems that emerge from the imposition of a very narrow conception of the English literary heritage on pupils across England. It considers the role of government and school policy-and of teachers and pupils-in mediating set texts, and the ways in which problematic aspects of these texts are questioned and resisted in the classroom.
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