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Professing Literature : An Institutional History

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780226305592
  • ISBN-10: 0226305597
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publish Date: October 2007
  • Dimensions: 8.91 x 6.02 x 0.81 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.04 pounds
  • Page Count: 340

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