Literature and learning : a history of English studies in Britain / Stefan Collini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collini, Stefan, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--Great Britain--History.

English literature.

Physical Description:

648 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198800185

9780198800187

OCLC:

1463763398

Publisher Number:

CIPO000204761