The Scottish Invention of English Literature

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Robert Crawford
Cambridge University Press, 28 juin 1998 - 259 pages
The Scottish Invention of English Literature explores the origins of the teaching of English literature in the academy. It demonstrates how the subject began in eighteenth-century Scottish universities before being exported to America and other countries. The emergence of English as an institutionalised university subject was linked to the search for distinctive cultural identities throughout the English-speaking world. This book explores the role the discipline played in administering restraints on the expression of indigenous literary forms, and shows how the growing professionalisation of English as a subject offered a breeding ground for academics and writers with an interest in native identity and cultural nationalism. This book is a comprehensive account of the historical origins of the university subject of English literature and provides a wealth of new material on its particular Scottish provenance.
 

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From Rhetoric to Criticism
22
Adam Smith Samuel Johnson and the institutions
37
Hugh Blairs Lectures
55
Hugh Blairs Ossian Romanticism and the teaching
68
37
77
The entrance of the novel into the Scottish universities
89
gender and the transmission
103
the teaching of Literature
116
The early impact of Scottish literary teaching
134
Scottish academia and the invention of American
164
Scottish Rhetoric and the formation of literary studies
180
Scotland and the early teaching
207
Scottish Literature and English Studies
225
Index
247
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