Loving Literature: A Cultural History

by Deidre Shauna Lynch

Book Overview

One of the most common--and wounding--misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they?

That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022618370X
• ISBN13: 9780226183701
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"