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Formation of College English, The - Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,692
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Formation of College English, The - Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces (Paperback, New): Thomas...

Formation of College English, The - Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces (Paperback, New)

Thomas Miller

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In the middle of the eighteenth century, English literature, composition, and rhetoric were introduced almost simultaneously into colleges throughout the British cultural provinces. Professorships of rhetoric and belles lettres were established just as print was reaching a growing reading public and efforts were being made to standardize educated taste and usage. The provinces saw English studies as a means to upward social mobility through cultural assimilation. In the educational centers of England, however, the introduction of English represented a literacy crisis brought on by provincial institutions that had failed to maintain classical texts and learned languages.

Today, as rhetoric and composition have become reestablished in the humanities in American colleges, English studies are being broadly transformed by cultural studies, community literacies, and political controversies. Once again, English departments that are primarily departments of literature see these basic writing courses as a sign of a literacy crisis that is undermining the classics of literature. "The Formation of College English" reexamines the civic concerns of rhetoric and the politics that have shaped and continue to shape college English.

General

Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 1997
First published: February 1997
Authors: Thomas Miller
Dimensions: 230 x 150 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5623-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Writing skills
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN: 0-8229-5623-3
Barcode: 9780822956235

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