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<p>To understand the history of "English," Ross Winterowd insists, one must understand how literary studies, composition-rhetoric studies, and influential textbooks interrelate. Stressing the interrelationship among these three forces, Winterowd presents a history of English studies in the university since the Enlightenment.</p> <p>Winterowd’s history is unique in three ways. First, it tells the whole story of English studies: it does not separate the history of literary studies from that of composition-rhetoric studies, nor can it if it is going to be an authentic history. Second, it traces the massive influence on English studies exerted by textbooks such as <i>Adventures in Literature, Understanding Poetry, English in Action,</i> and the <i>Harbrace College Handbook.</i> Finally, Winterowd himself is very much a part of the story, a partisan with more than forty years of service to the discipline, not simply a disinterested scholar searching for the truth.</p> <p>After demonstrating that literary studies and literary scholars are products of Romantic epistemology and values, Winterowd further invites controversy by reinterpreting the Romantic legacy inherited by English departme

Author

Winterowd, W. Ross

Publisher

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1998.

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809321704

Subjects

History, Language Learning, Literary Fiction