The Enchantment of English

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Professing English Literatures in Australian Universities

By Leigh Dale

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The Enchantment of English explores the history of teaching English in Australian universities from the late 19th century to the 1960s and 70s. It examines the growth and diversification of university courses, highlighting the political debates, academic appointments, and challenges of meeting student and public demands. The book reveals the lasting influence of English literature and the idea of England as central to literary study and imagination.
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This book is suited for students, academics, and anyone interested in the evolution of English studies and higher education history in Australia.

The Enchantment of English is a study of the teaching of English in Australian universities, from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century through to the 1960s and 1970s, a period in which universities proliferated and diversified.

The Enchantment of English explores the teaching of English in Australian universities from the 19th century through to the 20th century.

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The Enchantment of English is a study of the teaching of English in Australian universities, from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century through to the 1960s and 1970s, a period in which universities proliferated and diversified.

Written from the belief that every discipline is enhanced by understanding the arguments made for its existence and the conditions in which it was established, the author aims to help students and colleagues to think critically about the impact of institutional location in forming our habits of mind.

Amidst these stories of politics, critical debates, scrambling for appointments in specific areas and disputes about the need to satisfy the demands of students and the public for 'usefulness', this history reveals something intangible but durable: the power of the literary text over the imagination, and the power of the idea of England and its writers as a basis and motive for reading and study—hence, The Enchantment of English.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781920899721

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 November 2012

Country: Australia

Imprint: Sydney University Press

Edition: 2nd Digital original

Illustration: 1 table

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 370g

Pages: 294

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About the Author

Leigh Dale is a professor of English literature at the University of Wollongong.