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Introduction
Since English is the dominant global language at present, English Studies features significantly in humanistic pedagogy and scholarship worldwide. Of necessity then, English Studies has become a site of sustai...
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The Four Nodes of Convergence in Philological Knowledge
Various narratives of the emergence, development, and contemporary condition of English Studies have consistently charted a path away from philology, arguing that philological rationales and worldviews were su...
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The Former Heartlands of English Studies
This and the next chapter give an overview of histories of English Studies as an academic discipline in various contexts, which have, as observed earlier, repeatedly traced departures from philology. These are...
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From Philology to General Linguistics and Literary Theory
In the Epilogue of her book From Philology to English Studies (2013), centered on the study of language in the nineteenth century (along the historicist line briefly sketched in Chapter 3 above), Haruko Momma wro...
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Theory Debates and Discourse Analysis
What direction Theory should take as an institutional domain was a concern even while it was being constructed as such. Both de Man’s and Said’s works were replete with self-reflexive observations on literary ...
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Muting of, Return to, and Further Departure from Philology
Turning to the area — English Studies — in question here, with the above general characterization of philology in view, involves registering a curiously schismatic situation in the present. The features of thi...
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The Former Hinterlands of English Studies
Characterizing continental Europe and India as the former hinterlands of English Studies may seem a somewhat misleading retrospective view. Philological scholarship in Old English was centered firmly within Ge...
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The Politics of Language Corpora and Literary Theory
Further moves in extirpating literary sources from linguistics mentioned at the end of the last chapter were performed in the development of corpus-based projects, like Quirk’s SEU project. And further moves i...
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Englishes and Global English Studies
Retracings in this study follow two trajectories to fathom the proliferating diversities and global scope of English Studies, with the retrospective horizon and persistent remnants of philological scholarship ...
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Conclusion
For this conclusion, I will stay with Sally Shuttleworth’s reading of ‘The Turn of the Screw’ in The Mind of the Child, as I take it to be problematic not only in terms of its specific resistances to the linguist...
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Introduction
As a critic with an interest in the neglected, I find introductions to pose something of a challenge. The danger, of course, is that the neglect proves justified, in which case all I am doing here is laying th...
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The Child and the Return
David Selwyn’s account of the child in the work of Jane Austen has been introduced, with a difference set up between his project of drawing attention to a child that is too often forgotten or overlooked, and m...
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The Child and Transmission
In this chapter I turn my attention from the novel to poetry, specifically Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’. My interest here is in further develo** a reading of narratives of exchange that are constitut...
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The Queer Child
In the two remaining chapters of this book I will turn from the detailed analysis of the child in individual nineteenth-century literary texts to recent works of criticism that offer what might be considered c...
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The Child and the Letter
In the previous chapter I argued that certain established narratives concerning the structure and meaning of Jane Austen’s Persuasion can be disrupted through returning to a reading of the child that has been neg...
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The Child and the Thing
This final chapter of Part I — a detailed analysis of a single, canonical work of nineteenth-century fiction and its scholarly reception —engages with Charles Dickens, the Imperial and childhood. Over the past...
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The Child and History
In the previous chapter I suggested that certain queer readings of the nineteenth-century child, although offering path-breaking analyses of its apparent ‘naturalness’, also have a stake in maintaining access ...
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