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Defining Literary Criticism

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

Carol Atherton author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:27th Sep '05

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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.

'Thoughtful, well written and offering fresh perspectives on writers as diverse as A. C. Bradley and Virginia Woolf...[a] delightful book.' - Times Literary Supplement

ISBN: 9781403946799

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 445g

221 pages

2005 ed.