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Article: The Nineteenth-Century History of English Studies and Providence and Love: Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
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- January 1, 2001
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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 appointed Poet Laureate, himself an academic, has stated his aim as investigating 'what it means ...