Work Time - English Departments and the Circulation of Cultural Value

"A new and nuanced reformulation of an enduring leftist slogan: the duty of the revolutionary is to make the revolution." --boundary 2

About the author

Evan Watkins is Professor of English at the University of California Davis, and the author of The Critical Act: Criticism and Community.

Summary

Shares with a number of recent studies an interest in the historical development of English in the United States, in how it became a central discipline in the humanities, and in what the ideological affiliations of literature and literary study might be.

Additional text

“A new and nuanced reformulation of an enduring leftist slogan: the duty of the revolutionary is to make the revolution.” —boundary 2

Product details

• Authors: Evan Watkins
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780804716918
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-1691-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 603 g
• Series: Studies in Kant and German Ide; Studies in Kant and German Ide
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies