'Beaming "English" at the oppressed layers'? Henry Morley and his role in establishing English as a discipline
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2019
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Matthew Smith, « 'Beaming "English" at the oppressed layers'? Henry Morley and his role in establishing English as a discipline », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.218a05...
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This chapter challenges the Eagletonian critique of the foundation of English Studies as a kind of nationalistic opium of the people substituted for religion by the bourgeois culture of the second half of the nineteenth century, and in order to do so focuses specifically on one key player in that foundation: Henry Morley (1822-1894), the first real (by a large number of criteria) professor of English as a discipline in England, and a significant figure in both the University Extension movement and the access of women to higher education. I conclude the chapter by asserting that the Eagletonian approach to this episode of institutional history lacks nuance, is ultimately unhelpful, and fails to take into account the bottom-up dimension of the foundation of 'English' and of educational change in general during the period.
