Teaching Novels

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English

 

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Brigid W

 

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May 27, 2016

 

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University

 

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In the US, after the civil war, literature was viewed as a ‘repository of moral and spiritual values’. To Yale’s William Lyon Phelps, at the beginning of the 20th century, ‘teaching was preaching’ about Christian values and moral uplift. Classical and modern literature was regarded as a quasi-religious repository of spiritual guidance...
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To F.R Leavis ‘the serious study of English literature, the great tradition, was the chief weapon against the corruption and vulgarity of mass urban industrial society’ In 1988 , in Teaching Literature : What is Needed Now , a number of English professors offered conflicting views on literary goals , from Helen Vendler arguing that we should teach students to love what we have loved – meaning works of the imagination – to J Hilles Miller declaring that ‘all reading and teaching of literature is theoretical’ ...
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