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Disciplining English: Alternative Histories, Critical Perspectives » (1st Edition)

Authors: David R. Shumway (Editor), Craig Dionne (Editor), Craig Dionne
ISBN-13: 9780791453667, ISBN-10: 0791453669
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

Offers historical and present-day perspectives on what English departments do, and how and why they do it.

	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Episodes in the History of English
1	Child's Ballads: Narrating Histories of Composition and Literary Studies	19
2	Institutionalizing English: Rhetoric on the Boundaries	39
3	A Short History of a Border War: Social Science, School Reform, and the Study of Literature	59
4	Period Making and the Discipline: A Genealogy of the Idea of the Renaissance in ELH	83
5	Emerson and the Shape of American Literature	99
6	The Posttheory Generation	115
Pt. II	The Current Arrangements
7	Composing Literary Studies in Graduate Courses	135
8	Inventing Gender: Creative Writing and Critical Agency	149
9	Profiting Pedants: Symbolic Capital, Text Editing, and Cultural Reproduction	159
10	A New Kind of Work: Publishing, Theory, and Cultural Studies	179
11	What Hath English Wrought: The Corporate University's Fast Food Discipline	195
	Afterword	213
	Contributors	221
	Index	223