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A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of languageSpoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingu

Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the

The value of this readable account lies in the perspective it gives on the long process that established modern historical sense and the understanding of litera

In this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. Robert Scholes offer

One of the biggest political stories of the past few decades in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has been the growing divide between the working class and the m