The Beginnings of University English [electronic resource] : Extramural Study, 1885-1910 /
Lawrie, A.author.
Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to extramural students in England during the fin de siècle, and sheds new light on the modern roots of tertiary-level English teaching.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Early developments: English literature as a subject of study from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century; 2 'Barbarian war-cries on every side': John Churton Collins and the dispute over university English studies in the fin de siècle; 3 The University Extension Movement; 4 'A novel education': Richard G. Moulton's inductive criticism in extramural adult education during the fin de siècle; 5 Developing a taste for literature: Arnold Bennett, T. P.'s Weekly, and the Edwardian clerk
Coda: the Newbolt Report and university English studies in the twentieth centuryConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to extramural students in England during the fin de siècle, and sheds new light on the modern roots of tertiary-level English teaching.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.