From Philology to English Studies

Language and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

AvHaruko Momma

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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The study of English language and literature in Britain changed dramatically between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. From Philology to English Studies explores the contribution of philology to this movement. Haruko Momma charts both the rise and fall of philology from antiquity to the late eighteenth century, and the impact of modern philology on the study of modern languages and literatures. Focusing in detail on the work of key philologists in the nineteenth century, Momma considers how they shaped European discourse and especially vernacular studies in Britain: William Jones's discovery of Sanskrit in British India gave rise to Indo-European studies; Max Müller's study of this same language helped spread the Aryan myth to the English-speaking world; the OED achieved its greatness as a post-national lexicon under the editorship of James Murray, a dialectologist originally from Scotland.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-03-26
Mått:153 x 230 x 13 mm
Vikt:450 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in English Language
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107515611

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Haruko Momma is Professor of English at New York University. Her previous publications include The Composition of Old English Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Recensioner i media

'Critics have been advocating a 'return to philology' for decades. Leave it to Haruko Momma, a real philologist, to offer an erudite and fluent history of the discipline and a powerful claim for its endurance. She locates the origins of our contemporary teaching of literature in the traditions of Indo-European linguistics, English and German university scholarship, and American academic culture. From Philology to English Studies is the best critical engagement with the historical study of language - its institutions, ideologies, and idioms - since the groundbreaking studies of Hans Aarsleff nearly fifty years ago. It will be valued for as long.' Seth Lerer, Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of California, San Diego

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; 1. Introduction: where is philology?; 2. Philological awakening: William Jones and the architecture of learning; 3. The Anglo-Saxon revolution: John Mitchell Kemble and the paradigm; 4. The Philological Society of London: lexicography as national philology; 5. The professor and the reader: vernaculars in the academy; Epilogue: the closing of the phase of philology; Bibliography.