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The Beginnings of University English

Extramural Study, 1885-1910

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Alexandra Lawrie

    1. Edinburgh University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Alexandra Lawrie
    Pages 1-12

  3. Early developments: English literature as a subject of study from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

    • Alexandra Lawrie
    Pages 13-31

  4. ’Barbarian war-cries on every side’: John Churton Collins and the dispute over university English studies in the fin de siècle

    • Alexandra Lawrie
    Pages 32-55

  5. The University Extension Movement

    • Alexandra Lawrie
    Pages 56-85

  6. ‘A novel education’: Richard G. Moulton’s inductive criticism in extramural adult education during the fin de siècle

    • Alexandra Lawrie
    Pages 86-114

  7. Developing a taste for literature: Arnold Bennett, T. P.’s Weekly, and the Edwardian clerk

    • Alexandra Lawrie
    Pages 115-148

  8. Coda: the Newbolt Report and university English studies in the twentieth century

    • Alexandra Lawrie
    Pages 149-157

  9. Conclusion

    • Alexandra Lawrie
    Pages 158-160

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 161-190
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About this book

Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to extramural students in England during the fin de siècle, and sheds new light on the modern roots of tertiary-level English teaching.

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  • Edinburgh University, UK

    Alexandra Lawrie

About the author

Alexandra Lawrie is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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