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Eng. Lit
Short for English Literature, considered as an academic subject of study.
1850Mrs. Gaskell Let. 25 Jan. (1966) 103 Mr Tom Taylor (the late Professor of Eng. Lit. in University College). 1869Lady Amberley Diary 24 Feb. in B. & P. Russell Amberley Papers (1937) II. 260, I went to the two Introductory Lectures given by Prof. Morley on Eng. Lit. and by Prof. Forster on Experimental Physics. 1937S. Potter Muse in Chains 17 Eng. Lit. is an example of the interpretation of the greater by the lesser: of great English writers by anecdotalists, antiquarians, hero-worshippers, pedants, and collectors. 1948N. & Q. 6 Mar. 89/2 Joan Curl's pleasant story has a distinct flavour of Eng. Lit. 1957Listener 19 Dec. 1025/1 The donnish or Eng. Lit. attitude toward the drama. 1958Observer 30 Nov. 19/7 Earnest students of Eng. Lit. in the U.S.S.R. 1967G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 82 It seems to me that the wide gap between the orthodox academic formulation of ‘Eng. Lit.’..and the realities of our intellectual and psychological situation may account for the general malaise in the field. |