Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Defining Literary Criticism

Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002

  • Book
  • © 2005

Overview

Authors:
  1. Carol Atherton
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Carol Atherton
      Pages 1-8

  3. Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Histories of English: The Critical Background

      • Carol Atherton
      Pages 11-24

    3. English in the Universities

      • Carol Atherton
      Pages 25-56

  4. Philosophies and Practitioners

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Critics and Professors

      • Carol Atherton
      Pages 59-95

    3. Criticism and the Modernists: Woolf, Murry, Orage

      • Carol Atherton
      Pages 96-122

    4. Methods and Institutions: Eliot, Richards and Leavis

      • Carol Atherton
      Pages 123-150

  5. Current Debates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Revising English: Theory and Practice

      • Carol Atherton
      Pages 153-179

  6. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Carol Atherton
      Pages 181-182

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 183-221
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources. It addresses issues that are central to the identity of academic English - how the subject came into existence, and what makes it a specialist discipline of knowledge - in a manner that illuminates many of the crises that have affected the development of modern English studies. Atherton also addresses contemporary arguments about the teaching of literary criticism, including an examination of the reforms to A-Level literature.

Reviews

'Thoughtful, well written and offering fresh perspectives on writers as diverse as A. C. Bradley and Virginia Woolf...[a] delightful book.' - Times Literary Supplement

About the author

CAROL ATHERTON teaches English at Bourne Grammar School in Lincolnshire, UK.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation