Includes bibliographical references (p. [205] -234) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the humanities as a foreign language -- Beneath and beyond the "crisis in the humanities" -- Roots, races, and the return to philology -- Between humanity and the homeland: the evolution of an institutional concept -- The next big thing in literary study: pleasure -- Gold mines in Parnassus: thoughts on the integration of liberal and professional education -- Melancholy in the midst of abundance: how America invented the humanities -- The depths of the heights: reading Conrad with America's military.
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