Nineteenth-Century History of English Studies

Alan Bacon

• Contents: Introduction; Hugh Blair: Introduction to Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Thomas Campbell: ’Suggestions respecting the Plan of a College in London’, Edward Copleston: Review of Thomas Campbell’s plans for a college, Thomas Babington Macaulay: ’Thoughts on the Advancement of Academical Education in England’, Thomas Dale: ’Introductory Lecture’ at University College, London, 1828, F.D. Maurice: ’Education of the Middle Class’; ’Introductory Lecture’ at King’s College, London, 1840; Preface to Learning and Working, Charles Kingsley: ’On English Composition’; ’On English Literature’; Appointment of a Professor of English Language and Literature at University College, London in 1865: Report of a Committee of the Senate; The Schools Inquiry Commission: G.G. Bradley, Minutes of Evidence from G.G. Bradley; Dudley Ryder, Earl of Harrowby; Minutes of Evidence from the Earl of Harrowby; Museum and English Journal of Education: ’The Study of English Classics’; ’On the Teaching of the English Language and Literature’; ’On the Method of Teaching the English Language and Literature - II; ’On the Method of Teaching the English Language and Literature - III, Henry Sedgwick; ’The theory of Classical Education’; J.W. Hales ’The Teaching of English’; John Seeley: ’English in Schools’; E.A. Abbott: ’The Teaching of English’; Matthew Arnold: General Reports for 1852, 1860, 1871, 1872, 1876, 1880; John Churton Collins: Review of From Shakespeare to Pope, by Edmund Gosse; Review of the Petition addressed to Oxford University’s Hebdomadal Council for the Foundation of a School of Modern Literature, 1886; Letters to the Pall Mall Gazette, 1886-1887; Edward Freeman: Literature and Language; The Newbolt Report: The Teaching of English in England: Introduction to the Report; Sources of Texts; Index.

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