TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renker,Elizabeth
TI  - The origins of American literature studies: an institutional history 
T2  - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
SN  - 9780511367823
AV  - PS25 .R46 2007eb
U1  - 810.71/173 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Criticism
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature
KW  - Canon (Literature)
KW  - Littérature américaine
KW  - Étude et enseignement
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Théorie, etc
KW  - Littérature et société
KW  - Critique
KW  - Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The birth of the Ph. D.: The Johns Hopkins research model; Chapter 2 Seminary wars: female teachers and the seminary model at Mount Holyoke; Chapter 3 Higher education for African Americans: competing models at Wilberforce University; Chapter 4 Literary value and the land-grant model: The Ohio State University; Conclusion: the end of the curriculum; Notes; Bibliography; Archives consulted; Index
N2  - Although American literature is a standard subject in the American college curriculum, a century ago few people thought it should be taught there. Elizabeth Renker uncovers the complex historical process through which American literature overcame its image of aesthetic and historical inferiority to become an important field for academic study and research. Renker's extensive original archival research focuses on four institutions of higher education serving distinct regional, class, race and gender populations. She argues that American literature's inferior image arose from its affiliation with non-elite schools, teachers and students, and that it had to overcome this social identity in order to achieve status as serious knowledge. Renker's revisionary analysis is an important contribution to the intellectual history of the United States and will be of interest to anyone studying, teaching or researching American literature
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