Professing Literature
Subtitle: An Institutional History
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780226306049
Subjects: Literary theory; General; Higher; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Criticism; History; Literature; Study and teaching (Higher); United States
First sentence: Professing Literature is a history of academic literary studies in the United States, roughly from the Yale Report of 1828, which assured the primacy of the classical over the vernacular languages in American colleges for another half-century, to the waning of the New Criticism in the 1960s and subsequent controversies over literary theory.