The following list is meant to help you if you are getting interested in the history of English Studies in Europe. It is selective, in some cases haphazard, but deliberately not restricted to English Studies in Europe. Its gaps, especially where Continental Europe is concerned, cry out for help. If you are aware of additional material (also articles) please give us a complete bibliographical reference, and a short description of the item, indicating which topics, geographical areas and periods are covered; send them to Balz Engler <engler@unibas.ch>. 

The bibliography will be regularly updated.

Baldick, Chris. The Social Mission of English Criticism 1848-1932. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1983. 

Bowden, Betsy. "The First Professor of English." in "Forum" PMLA 104. 1989. 894 

Cain, William. The Crisis in Criticism: Theory, Literature, and Reform in English Studies. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1984. 

Court, Franklin E. "The Social and Historical Significance of the First English Literature Professorship in England." PMLA 103. 1988. 796-807. 

Court, Franklin E. Institutionalizing English Literature: The Culture and Politics of Literary Study, 1750-1900. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. 

Crawford, Robert, Devolving English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 

Crawford, Robert, ed., Launch-Site for English Studies: Three Centuries of Literary Studies at the University of St. Andrews. St. Andrews: Verse, 1997. 

Crawford, Robert, ed., The Scottish Invention of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 

Doyle, Brian. "The Invention of English." In Colls, Robert, and Dodd, Philip, eds. Englishness: Culture and Politics, 1880-1920. Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1986. 89-115. 

Doyle, Brian. English and Englishness. New Accents Series. London: Routledge, 1989. 

Eagleton, Terry. The Function of Criticism: From The Spectator to Post-Structuralism. London: Verso, 1984. 

Finkenstaedt, Thomas, Kleine Geschichte der Anglistik in Deutschland: Eine Einführung. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983. 

Finkenstaedt, Thomas, and Scholtes, Gertrud, eds. Towards a History of English Studies in Europe. Augsburg: University of Augsburg, 1983 

Contents: Christmann, Hans Helmut, "Romance Philology versus English Studies in Germany in the Nineteenth Century--Selected Aspects of a Vast Subject."; Derolez, René, "English Studies in Belgium: What's in a Name?"; Storms, Godfrid, "Short Survey of Anglistics in the Netherlands"; Hchroder, Konrad, "The Pre-History of English Studies in Germany, 1554 to 1813"; Fisiak, Jacek, "English Studies in Poland: A Historical Survey"; Zimmermann, Georges Denis, "The Universities of French-Speaking Switzerland"; Marenco, Franco, "Italy, 1930-1980: A Survey"; Poldauf, Ivan, "The Rise and Development of English Studies in the Country of the Prague School"; Zettersten, Arne, "Pre-History of English Studies at Swedish Universities" 

Franklin, Phyllis. "English Studies: The World of Scholarship in 1883." PMLA 99, 3. May 1984. 356-70. 

Gay, Josephine, and Small, Ian. Politics and Value in English Studies, (1993), esp. ch.2 ("The Nature of Disciplinary Knowledge" and 6 ("The History of English Studies"). 

Graff, Gerald. Professing Literature: An Institutional History. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1987. 

Graff, Gerald, and Warner, Michael, eds. The Origins of Literary Studies in America, A Documentary Anthology. New York: Routledge, 1989. 

Gross, John. The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: Aaspects of English Literary Life Since 1800. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. 

Haas, Renate. V.A. Huber, S. Emanuel und die Formationsphase der deutschen Anglistik: Zur Philologisierung der Fremdsprache ... Bern: Lang, 1990 

Harrison, G. B. The Profession of English. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1962. 

Herford, C.H. The Bearing of English Studies upon the National Life. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1910. 

Hohendahl, Peter Uwe. The Institution of Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1982. 

Holton, Robert. "'A True Bond of Unity': Popular Education and the Foundation of the Discipline of English Literature in England." Dalhousie Review, 66.1/2 Spring/Summer 1986. 31-44. 

Hunter, Ian. Culture and Government: The emergence of literary education. London: Macmillan, 1989. 

Kroeber, Karl. "The Evolution of Literary Study, 1883-1983." PMLA 99, 3. May 1984. 326-39. 

Leavis, F.R. Education and the University: A Sketch for an 'English School'. London: Chatto and Windus, 1943. 

Mathieson, Margaret. The Preachers of Culture: A Study of English and Its Teachers. London: Allen and Unwin, 1975. 

McCrea, Brian. Addison and Steele are Dead: The English Department, its Canon and the Professionalization of Literary Criticism. Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press, 1990. 

McMurty, Jo. English Language, English Literature: The Creation of an Academic Discipline. London: Mansell, 1985 

Ohmann, Richard. English in America: A Radical View of the Profession. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. 

Palmer, D.J. The Rise of English Studies: An Account of the Study of English Language and Literature from Its Origins to the Making of the Oxford English School. London: Oxford UP, 1965. 

Potter, Stephen. The Muse in Chains: A Study in Education. Capetown, 1937. 

Rajan, Rajeswari Sunder, ed. The Lie of the land : English literary studies in India. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. 

Readings, Bill; The University in Ruins. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1996. 

Sampson, George. English for the English: A Chapter on National Education. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1952. 

Viswanathan, Gauri. A Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. New York: Columbia UP, 1989. 

Watkins, Evan. Work Time: English departments and the Circulation of Cultural Value. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1989. 

Widdowson, Peter, ed. Re-Reading English. New York: Methuen, 1982.