Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002
Carol Atherton
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paperback. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349523931
SKU
V9781349523931
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About Carol Atherton
CAROL ATHERTON teaches English at Bourne Grammar School in Lincolnshire, UK.
Reviews for Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002
'Thoughtful, well written and offering fresh perspectives on writers as diverse as A. C. Bradley and Virginia Woolf...[a] delightful book.' - Times Literary Supplement