Literature and learning : a history of English studies in Britain /
"The study and teaching of English literature is generally regarded as one of the central disciplines in the modern university, yet for much of its history it struggled to gain academic legitimacy and was frequently derided as 'a soft option'. Its early professors responded by emphasi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "The study and teaching of English literature is generally regarded as one of the central disciplines in the modern university, yet for much of its history it struggled to gain academic legitimacy and was frequently derided as 'a soft option'. Its early professors responded by emphasizing its scholarly character, foregrounding philology and literary history in ways that marked the syllabus far into the twentieth century. Stefan Collini provides a full account of the discipline's development from its late-eighteenth-century beginnings up to the early 1960s. Paying special attention to institutional settings, he challenges numerous assumptions about the character of universities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 656 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198800185 9780198800187 |