Author: Court, Franklin E.
Title: Institutionalizing English Literature : The Culture and Politics of Literary Study, 1750-1900
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, ix,211 pp. Minor rubbing, some page-edge soil, VG. Dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Adam Smith & Hugh Blair: The Politics of Conduct & Taste; Utilitarianism, Institutional Politics, & the Rise of Philology: English at London's University College; F.D. Maurice, A.J. Scott, Comparative Philology, & the Transition to Arnold; Cultural Insularity, Nationalism, and the Significance of Burke: English After 1850 - From David Masson to Walter Raleigh; Afterword.

Keywords: British Literary Canon, English Literature, University Study, Great Britain, Criticism, History, Teaching, Education,