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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Early Developments: English Literature as a Subject of Study from the Seventeenth Century to the Nineteenth 2. 'Barbarian war-cries on every side': John Churton Collins and the Dispute over University English Studies in the fin de siècle 3. The University Extension Movement 4. 'A novel education': Richard G. Moulton's Inductive Criticism in Extramural Adult Education during the fin de siècle 5. Developing a Taste for Literature: Arnold Bennett, T. P.'s Weekly and the Edwardian Clerk Coda: The Newbolt Report and University English Studies in the Twentieth Century Conclusion

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Alexandra Lawrie is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.