Professing Literature

An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

By: Gerald Graff

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Paperback | 1 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo-and often recycle-controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago.

Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, Professing Literature remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic.

"Graff's history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed."- The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

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"Both E. D. Hirsch and Allan Bloom share...a nostalgia for a not very closely examined past in which things were better. Gerald Graff's Professing Literature is extremely important, partly because it tells us a good deal about the realities of this supposedly better time....Graff's book is more consequential than Bloom's because it addresses the pedagogical questions and situates them in a fascinating narrative of how literature has actually been taught in this country for the past century and a half." - Robert Scholes, College English "Graff's history...is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed." - The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism"

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Preface Twenty Years Later	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Introduction: The Humanist Myth	p. 1
Literature in the Old College: 1828-1876
The Classical College	p. 19
Oratorical Culture and the Teaching of English	p. 36
The Early Professional Era: 1875-1915
The Investigators (1): The New University	p. 55
The Investigators (2): The Origins of Literature Departments	p. 65
The Generalist Opposition	p. 81
Crisis at the Outset: 1890-1915	p. 98
Scholars versus Critics: 1915-1950
Scholars versus Critics: 1915-1930	p. 121
Groping for a Principle of Order: 1930-1950	p. 145
General Education and the Pedagogy of Criticism: 1930-1950	p. 162
Scholars versus Critics: 1940-1965
History versus Criticism: 1940-1960	p. 183
Modern Literature in the University: 1940-1960	p. 195
The Promise of American Literature Studies	p. 209
Rags to Riches to Routine	p. 226
Problems of Theory: 1965-
Tradition versus Theory	p. 247
Notes	p. 263
Index	p. 305
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