This is the 2002 version (2nd)
Authored by English(welsh) professor teaching theory
Peter Barry
[The invisible guidelines literary critics use when analysing text] can only be brought to the surface by a conscious effort of will.
Studying literature for "emancipation"
Expression of the middle class
Educating people in English gives them agency
Substitution for religion?
Control of ideology, or spreading culture and enlightenment? What was the motive?
F.D. Maurice
Edward Freeman We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'. These are all excellent things, only we cannot examine tastes and sympathies. Examiners must have technical and positive information to examine.
Literature serves to education on life,, transmit humane values(?)
A cultural shift away from broadness of literature.
In 1960s, scholars sought to weaken this separation by reconnecting literature to these things(the ones that Leavis departed from)
