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Serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase the love of literature as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy.

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"A major work by a major scholar. This is truly an eagerly awaited book. Needless to say, Lynch writes not as some kind of skeptical outsider, but as a 'lover of literature' who seeks to understand why we professionally take all this so personally. The book will be much read and talked about across all fields of literary scholarship and beyond: a book about the love of literature is sure to attract the attention of a broad band of literature lovers both inside and outside the academy." (Adela Pinch, University of Michigan)"

Loving Literature

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    A Hardback by Deidre Shauna Lynch

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 22 December 2014
      ISBN-13 9780226183701
      978-0226183701
      ISBN-10 022618370X
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      Literary studies: general Social and cultural history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase the love of literature as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy.

      Trade Review
      "A major work by a major scholar. This is truly an eagerly awaited book. Needless to say, Lynch writes not as some kind of skeptical outsider, but as a 'lover of literature' who seeks to understand why we professionally take all this so personally. The book will be much read and talked about across all fields of literary scholarship and beyond: a book about the love of literature is sure to attract the attention of a broad band of literature lovers both inside and outside the academy." (Adela Pinch, University of Michigan)"

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