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

Name: Defining Literary Criticism : Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002
Brand: Carol Atherton
SKU: 9781349523931
Price: 47.24 GBP
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by Carol Atherton

Title:

Author:

Carol Atherton

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

221 pages, VIII, 221 p.

Publisher:

Springer Nature B.V.

ISBN-13:

9781349523931

EAN:

9781349523931

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

432

Dimensions (mm):

215 x 139 x 19

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

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Description

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.