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.
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