Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Early developments: English literature as a subject of study from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

Chapter 3 ’Barbarian war-cries on every side’: John Churton Collins and the dispute over university English studies in the fin de siècle

Chapter 5 ‘A novel education’: Richard G. Moulton’s inductive criticism in extramural adult education during the fin de siècle

Chapter 6 Developing a taste for literature: Arnold Bennett, T. P.’s Weekly , and the Edwardian clerk

Chapter 7 Coda: the Newbolt Report and university English studies in the twentieth century

Chapter 8 Conclusion