Beginnings of University English - Extramural Study, 1885-1910

Informationen zum Autor Alexandra Lawrie is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Early Developments: English Literature as a Subject of Study from the Seventeenth Century to the Nineteenth 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 Century Conclusion

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Early Developments: English Literature as a Subject of Study from the Seventeenth Century to the Nineteenth 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 Century Conclusion

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• Authors: A Lawrie, A. Lawrie
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349456307
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45630-7
• No. of pages: 199
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, English literature;English studies;novel