Defining literary criticism
Subtitle: scholarship, authority, and the possession of literary knowledge, 1880-2002
By: Carol Atherton.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; English literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain; Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Description: "The academic study of English literature has always been controversial. In this timely and ambitious volume, Carol Atherton examines these controversies by tracing a number of debates about the study of English, from its institutionalisation in the late nineteenth century to recent arguments about the reform of English A-level. Drawing on archival records from a range of universities, and on the work of critics such as Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis, the author demonstrates that the struggle to define literary criticism is still ongoing - presenting readers with a challenging and original perspective on the nature of literary knowledge."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.