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See Tillyard (1958:82–92). Like Basil Willey (above, n. 7), he employs the more general, uncapitalized term “liberalism” to characterize the essential quality of Cambridge English Studies, but makes it clear that, in this matter, and despite his “gossipy” style, Quiller-Couch gave a genuine lead (83–84). See also his analysis of factors later undermining the “grounding principle of liberalism” in the subject (127–28). There are, of course, a number of different accounts of the development of “English’’ as an academic subject in Britain. For a provocative and persuasive alternative history, see Robert Crawford (ed.) The Scottish Invention of English Literature (1998).
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