“Whether Utility or Pleasure be the Principal Aim in View”’: An Edinburgh Perspective on the Value of English Studies

Susan Manning

“Whether Utility or Pleasure be the Principal Aim in View”’: An Edinburgh Perspective on the Value of English Studies

Susan Manning

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

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Abstract

A critical perspective on the evolution of English Studies at Edinburgh from its origin in the eighteenth century to the contemporary state of the subject. The essay begins with Hugh Blair's appointment to the first Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the world, and considers the significance of this development in the context of disciplinary and institutional evolution in British higher education

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1 - 16
Number of pages	16
Journal	Scottish Literary Review
Publication status	Published - 2009

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English Literature studies, Scottish Enlightenment, Hugh Blair, Disciplinary evolution, Higher education in Scotland, rhetoric poetics

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“Whether Utility or Pleasure be the Principal Aim in View”’: An Edinburgh Perspective on the Value of English Studies

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