English
literature
first
enters
the
university
in
the
____________________
,
in
____________________
,
but
it
does
so
under
the
strange
-
sounding
label
of
?
Rhetoric
____________________
____________________
____________________
.
University
College
____________________
began
teaching
in
____________________
and
included
on
its
staff
Britain's
first
?
Professor
of
English
Language
and
Literature'
.
Each
great
author
was
understood
in
relation
to
his
____________________
and
as
building
upon
their
____________________
.
This
new
approach
also
connected
literary
study
very
closely
to
the
____________________
of
the
language
,
starting
with
the
Old
English
poems
and
chronicles
of
the
____________________
-
____________________
.
English
Literature
was
understood
as
developing
continuously
through
time
just
as
the
____________________
had
done
.
But
,
in
another
sense
,
this
was
a
very
____________________
way
of
reading
poems
and
plays
.
The
?
English
tradition'
was
imagined
as
smoothly
continuous
,
____________________
when
English
society
had
suffered
the
sudden
dislocations
of
Reformation
,
civil
war
,
and
economic
upheaval
.
Each
literary
text
was
understood
in
relation
to
other
____________________
____________________
which
preceded
and
followed
it
,
not
in
relation
to
the
political
or
____________________
situation
in
which
it
was
first
written
or
published
.
This
lack
of
interest
in
____________________
contexts
was
taken
over
from
Smith
,
Blair
and
the
Dissenters
.
But
where
they
had
seen
literary
study
as
a
way
of
becoming
modern
,
English
Literature
in
the
____________________
-
____________________
universities
became
instead
a
way
of
connecting
yourself
to
the
____________________
.
It
allowed
students
to
understand
themselves
as
the
inheritors
of
an
English
national
____________________
that
was
embodied
in
the
nation's
____________________
.
More
directly
,
English
Literature
at
university
could
appeal
to
____________________
group
denied
both
the
vote
and
a
classical
education
:
____________________
.
Barred
from
most
professions
,
such
as
the
law
and
medicine
,
and
from
training
in
the
natural
sciences
,
young
middle
-
class
women
sought
out
other
sources
of
intellectual
fulfillment
,
and
by
the
end
of
the
____________________
had
new
career
opportunities
as
____________________
and
office
-
workers
.
They
,
too
,
could
be
accommodated
in
English
classes
,
the
reading
of
literature
fostering
what
were
assumed
to
be
the
natural
feminine
powers
of
sympathy
,
and
infusing
them
with
the
____________________
heritage
of
their
race
.
