Full Description
This book retraces the formation of modern English Studies by departing from philological scholarship along two lines: in terms of institutional histories and in terms of the separation of literary criticism and linguistics.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: PHILOLOGY
1. The Four Nodes of Convergence in Philological Knowledge
2. Muting of, Return to, and Further Departure from Philology
PART II: INSTITUTIONAL HISTORIES
3. The Former Heartlands of English Studies
4. The Former Hinterlands of English Studies
PART III: LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY STUDIES
5. From Philology to General Linguistics and Literary Theory
6. Then Politics of Language Corpora and Literary Theory
7. Theory Debates and Discourse Analysis
8. Englishes and Global English Studies
Bibliography
Index
