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The Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces

The Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces

Miller, Thomas

Paperback

Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture, Book 163

General Education

ISBN10: 0822956233
ISBN13: 9780822956235
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Feb 27 1997
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
In the middle of the eighteenth century, English literature, composition, and rhetoric were introduced almost simultaneously into colleges throughout the British cultural provinces. Professorships of rhetoric and belles lettres were established just as print was reaching a growing reading public and efforts were being made to standardize educated taste and usage. The provinces saw English studies as a means to upward social mobility through cultural assimilation. In the educational centers of England, however, the introduction of English represented a literacy crisis brought on by provincial institutions that had failed to maintain classical texts and learned languages.

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