Professing Literature

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Preface Twenty Years Later
Acknowledgements

     1  Introduction: Humanist Myth

LITERATURE IN THE OLD COLLEGE: 1828-1876

     2  The Classical College
     3  Oratorical Culture and the Teaching of English
     4  The Investigators (1): The New University
     5  The Investigators (2): The Origins of Literature Departments
     6  The Generalist Opposition
     7  Crisis at the Outset: 1890-1915

SCHOLARS VERSUS CRITICS:1915-1930

     8  Scholars versus Critics: 1915-1930
     9  Groping for a Principle of Order: 1930-1950
     10 General Education and the Pedagogy of Criticism: 1930-1950

PROBLEMS OF THEORY: 1965-

     15 Tradition versus Theory

          Notes
          Index