The Nineteenth-century History of English StudiesAlan Bacon This study collects together many of the original texts from the long-running debate which surrounded the rise of English as an academic subject. Most of the texts were ephemeral and have been long out of print, but they are essential to an understanding of how English studies developed. They show how English was influenced by pre-existing subjects like rhetoric and classics, and how it assumed different faces in different academic institutions. Each text is given an introduction which sets it in context and highlights themes. A general introduction to the book sketches the history of English studies in the nineteenth century. London was central to the early history, with University College, King's College and Queen's College all looming large. Oxford figured later in the century, and became the centre of a truly national debate over the future of the subject. Schools played a part, especially grammar schools catering for middle-class pupils who were commonly identified as the main market for English. |
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... taught , or if it is taught at all it is only for the purpose of explaining the prefixes and affixes , in the most rudimentary way . It is a good English education ; then , as a means of enabling the boys who had distinguished ...
... taught , or if it is taught at all it is only for the purpose of explaining the prefixes and affixes , in the most rudimentary way . It is a good English education ; then , as a means of enabling the boys who had distinguished ...
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... taught , involves of necessity some labour and mental effort . The study of a foreign language , however superficial , has yet in it some disciplinary virtue . On the other hand , to make one's native tongue even a moderately effective ...
... taught , involves of necessity some labour and mental effort . The study of a foreign language , however superficial , has yet in it some disciplinary virtue . On the other hand , to make one's native tongue even a moderately effective ...
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... taught ; facts may be taught ; but surely the delicacies and elegances of literature cannot be driven into any man : he must learn to appreciate them for himself . If the poet cannot be made , surely the student and critic of the poet ...
... taught ; facts may be taught ; but surely the delicacies and elegances of literature cannot be driven into any man : he must learn to appreciate them for himself . If the poet cannot be made , surely the student and critic of the poet ...
Contents
Hugh Blair | 16 |
Thomas Campbell | 22 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay | 29 |
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