Author: PALMER, D.J.
Title: The Rise of English Studies: An Account of the Study of English Language and Literature from its Origins to the Making of the Oxford English School.
Description: Oxford University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Some tape-marks to endpapers from taped in dj, otherwise good condition. Describes "...the conflicting interests which led to the founding of the Oxford English School in 1894, and argues that the small group of men who built the Oxford School established in English studies a particular tradition of humane teaching and scholarship which deserves to be recalled...[and] was founded on the belief that the English language and literature constituted in themselves a discipline as rewarding and exacting as the Classics." 192pp.

Keywords: english literature history historical literary criticism education educational history oxford university 19th nineteenth century