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The Nineteenth-Century History of English Studies and Providence and Love: Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin.

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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20010101
Author:Fraser, Robert

 
The Nineteenth-Century History of English Studies. Ed. By Alan Bacon. 
(The Nineteenth Century) Aldershot, Brookfield, VT, and Singapore: 
Ashgate. 1998. x+321 pp. [pound]45. 
 
Providence and Love: Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, 
and Ruskin. By John Beer. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. xv+335 pp. [pound]45. 

What is English Literature, and how did the English come to study it? At a time when names as illustrious as Mary Shelley and Elizabeth Gaskell have been removed from the list of recommended authors for the National Curriculum, and when the newly ...

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