The Beginnings of University English

1. Introduction
Alexandra Lawrie

2. Early developments: English literature as a subject of study from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century
Alexandra Lawrie

3. ’Barbarian war-cries on every side’: John Churton Collins and the dispute over university English studies in the fin de siècle
Alexandra Lawrie

4. The University Extension Movement
Alexandra Lawrie

5. ‘A novel education’: Richard G. Moulton’s inductive criticism in extramural adult education during the fin de siècle
Alexandra Lawrie

6. Developing a taste for literature: Arnold Bennett, T. P.’s Weekly, and the Edwardian clerk
Alexandra Lawrie

7. Coda: the Newbolt Report and university English studies in the twentieth century
Alexandra Lawrie

8. Conclusion
Alexandra Lawrie

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature