20th Century Literature in English  (English, Paperback, Yadav B. L.)

Literary scholars of 1900 would have been as wrong about the methods that would prevail in the twentieth century as they were about the authors who would be read. They would have championed the bibliographic and philological scholarship of Skeat and Furni vail, and they might have noticed the hortatory belletrisrn of Brownell and Phelps. They certainly would not have predicted how a circle of literary amateurs in Middle Tennessee would whet the public taste for what we now call High Modernism in ways the scholars of Yale and Harvard could not have imagined. Nor could they have imagined that some of these same people, pulling together a pamphlet originally titled 'Sophomore English Manual,' for use in the state university of the poorest state in the Union in the depths of the Depression, would transform how literature was taught everywhere for half a century.