Disciplining English : Alternative Histories, Critical Perspectives.

Intro -- Disciplining English: Alternative Histories, Critical Perspectives -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH -- 1. Child's Ballads: Narrating Histories of Composition and Literary Studies -- 2. Institutionalizing English: Rhetoric on the Boundaries -- 3. A Short History of a Border War: Social Science,School Reform, and the Study of Literature -- 4. Period Making and the Discipline: A Genealogy of the Idea of the Renaissance in ELH -- 5. Emerson and the Shape of American Literature -- 6. The Posttheory Generation -- PART II: THE CURRENT ARRANGEMENTS -- 7. Composing Literary Studies in Graduate Courses -- 8. Inventing Gender: Creative Writing and Critical Agency -- 9. Profiting Pedants: Symbolic Capital, Text Editing, and Cultural Reproduction -- 10. A New Kind of Work: Publishing, Theory, and Cultural Studies -- 11. What Hath English Wrought: The Corporate University's Fast Food Discipline -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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