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Defining Literary Criticism

Paperback • 2005 • English

Defining Literary Criticism

By Carol Atherton

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About the book

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. Ather...Show more

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9781349523931

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Defining Literary Criticism

Format

Paperback

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