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The enchantment of English : professing English literatures in Australian universities / Leigh Dale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dale, Leigh, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--Australia--History.
- English literature.
- Nationalism and education--Australia--History.
- Nationalism and education.
- Imperialism in literature--History.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Literature and society--Australia--History.
- Literature and society.
- Australia--Intellectual life--History.
- Australia.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Intellectual life--History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Written from the belief that every discipline is enhanced by understanding the arguments made for its existence and the conditions in which it was established, the author aims to help students and colleagues to think critically about the impact of institutional location in forming our habits of mind.
- Contents:
- Intro
- THE ENCHANTMENT OF ENGLISH
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ACADEMIC TERMINOLOGY
- THE PLACE OF READING
- Sources and Structure
- CLASSICS AND COLONIALISM
- TG Tucker at Melbourne
- The Jury Chair at Adelaide
- FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY
- TH Green and Idealism
- 'The same under different skies'
- MacCallum's Mentees
- MACAULAY AND AFTER
- Morris and Murdoch
- Cowling and the Age Debate
- UWA and Queensland
- Strong Men
- VARIATIONS
- Tasmania and the Orr Case
- Arnold, Oxford and Shakespeare
- Old Norse myth: Maxwell at Melbourne
- The Story so Far
- DEBATING LEAVIS
- Eliot and Richards
- Perth to Melbourne
- Musical Chairs: Sydney
- Professing Australian Literature
- THE UNEASY CHAIR: AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
- 'dangerous work': The Meanjin Debate
- AD Hope in Canberra
- McAuley, Communism and Quadrant
- Making Canons: Vincent Buckley
- Commonwealth Literature
- ENDINGS/FUTURES
- AFTERWORD
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781743327739
- 1743327730
- OCLC:
- 1258650387
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