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From philology to English studies : language and culture in the nineteenth century / Haruko Momma.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in English languagePublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xv, 224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781139775793
  • 1139775790
  • 9781139023412
  • 1139023411
  • 1139887866
  • 9781139887861
  • 1139793217
  • 9781139793216
  • 1139783181
  • 9781139783187
  • 1139781820
  • 9781139781824
  • 1139778838
  • 9781139778831
  • 1283714507
  • 9781283714501
  • 1139777319
  • 9781139777315
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From philology to English studies.DDC classification:
  • 409 23
LOC classification:
  • P75 .M66 2013eb
Other classification:
  • LAN009010
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction: where is philology? -- 2. Philological awakening: William Jones and the architecture of learning -- 3. The Anglo-Saxon revolution: John Mitchell Kemble and the paradigm -- 4. The Philological Society of London: lexicography as national philology -- 5. The professor and the reader: vernaculars in the academy -- Epilogue.
Summary: "The study of English language and literature in Britain changed dramatically between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. From Philology to English Studies explores the contribution of philology to this evolution. Haruko Momma charts both the rise and fall of philology from antiquity to the late eighteenth century, and the impact of modern philology on the study of modern languages and literatures. Focusing in detail on the work of key philologists in the nineteenth century, Momma considers how they shaped European discourse and especially vernacular studies in Britain: William Jones' discovery of Sanskrit in British India gave rise to Indo-European studies; Max Müller's study of this same language helped spread the Aryan myth to the English-speaking world; the OED achieved its greatness as a post-national lexicon through the editorship of the Scottish dialectologist"-- Provided by publisher.
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"The study of English language and literature in Britain changed dramatically between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. From Philology to English Studies explores the contribution of philology to this evolution. Haruko Momma charts both the rise and fall of philology from antiquity to the late eighteenth century, and the impact of modern philology on the study of modern languages and literatures. Focusing in detail on the work of key philologists in the nineteenth century, Momma considers how they shaped European discourse and especially vernacular studies in Britain: William Jones' discovery of Sanskrit in British India gave rise to Indo-European studies; Max Müller's study of this same language helped spread the Aryan myth to the English-speaking world; the OED achieved its greatness as a post-national lexicon through the editorship of the Scottish dialectologist"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Introduction: where is philology? -- 2. Philological awakening: William Jones and the architecture of learning -- 3. The Anglo-Saxon revolution: John Mitchell Kemble and the paradigm -- 4. The Philological Society of London: lexicography as national philology -- 5. The professor and the reader: vernaculars in the academy -- Epilogue.

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