Richard Somerset and Matthew Smith (dir.), Mapping Fields of Study: the Cultural and Institutional Space of English Studies

Mapping Fields of Study: the Cultural and Institutional Space of English Studies purports to account for the creation, structuring and evolution of English studies in the English-speaking world. In the introduction to the volume, Richard Somerset distinguishes three phases in their development. First, their structuration throughout the 19th and early 20th century on the model of the sciences. Then, the priority given to historicisation as a method after the Second World War (which mostly spr...