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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