Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002
Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources. It addresses issues that are central to the identity of academic English - how the subject came into existence, and what makes it a specialist discipline of knowledge - in a manner that illuminates many of the crises that have affected the development of modern English studies. Atherton also addresses contemporary arguments about the teaching of literary criticism, including an examination of the reforms to A-Level literature.
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Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002
Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources. It addresses issues that are central to the identity of academic English - how the subject came into existence, and what makes it a specialist discipline of knowledge - in a manner that illuminates many of the crises that have affected the development of modern English studies. Atherton also addresses contemporary arguments about the teaching of literary criticism, including an examination of the reforms to A-Level literature.
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Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002

Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002

by Carol Atherton
Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002

Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002

by Carol Atherton

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Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources. It addresses issues that are central to the identity of academic English - how the subject came into existence, and what makes it a specialist discipline of knowledge - in a manner that illuminates many of the crises that have affected the development of modern English studies. Atherton also addresses contemporary arguments about the teaching of literary criticism, including an examination of the reforms to A-Level literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403946799
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 09/27/2005
Edition description: 2005
Pages: 221
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

CAROL ATHERTON teaches English at Bourne Grammar School in Lincolnshire, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: INSTITUTIONS Histories of English: The Critical Background English in the Universities PART TWO: PHILOSOPHIES AND PRACTITIONERS Critics and Professors Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis PART THREE: CURRENT DEBATES Revising English: Theory and Practice Conclusion Bibliography Index
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