Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies by Ted Underwood

Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies

Ted Underwood

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In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But...

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