Literary studies and the academy

In 1885 the University of Oxford invited applications for the newly created Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature. The holder of the chair was, according to the statutes, to ‘lecture and give instruction on the broad history and criticism of English Language and Literature, and on the works of approved English authors’. This was not in itself a particularly innovatory move, as the study of English vernacular literature had played some part in higher education in Britain for over a century. Oxford University had put English as a subject into its pass degree in 1873, had been participating since 1878 in extension teaching, of which literary study formed a significant part, and had since 1881 been setting special examinations in the subject for its non-graduating women students. What was new was the fact that this ancient university appeared to be on the verge of granting the solid academic legitimacy of an established chair to an institutionally marginal and often contentious intellectual pursuit, acknowledging the study of literary texts in English to be a fit subject not just for women and the educationally disadvantaged but also for university men

Kiri John Pickering'ile

Du Ponceau, Pierre Etienne, 1760-1844, ameerika juristPickering, John, 1777-1846, ameerika juristSoovituskir

A Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of The Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States

A Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of The Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States: Being a Valedictory Address Delivered to the Students of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, at the close of the Academic Year, on the 22d April, 1824, by Pete

A Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of The Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States

A Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of The Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States: Being a Valedictory Address Delivered to the Students of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, at the close of the Academic Year, on the 22d April, 1824, by Pete

Description of the province of New Sweden : now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America

An account of the earliest Swedish settlement in America compiled from manuscripts left by the author's grandfather and by Peter Lindstrom, an engineer and cartographer in the colony, and from oral sources Book IV, p. 144-156, is a "Vocabulary and phrases in the American language of New Sweden, otherwise called Pennsylvania", and includes glossaries of words and phrases relating to religion, parts of the body, clothing, weather, animals and plants, numbers, and useful conversational phrases in the Delaware language. Also contains "Discourses which took place at a council held by the Indians in 1645, on the subject of the Swedes and of New Sweden, in which their sachem or king, first speaks with his son, about calling the nation together" on p. 153-156 Addenda, p. [157]-166, includes "Of the Minques, or Minkus, and their language" on p. [157]-159 and gives a sizeable vocabulary of words and phrases and numerals in the Iroquois language "A list of the Swedish families residing in New Sweden in the year 1693, with the number of individuals in each family": p. [164]-166 LoC Subject Headings: Indians of North America--Pennsylvania; Susquehanna Indians--language; Delaware Indians; Delaware language; Iroquoian languages; Unami jargo

La dignité des gens de lettres , pièce qui a concouru pour le prix de l'Académie française, en 1774. Par M. Doigni

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Éloge de Michel de l'Hôpital, chancelier de France, par M. Doigni

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