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Upon careful reflection, the reader will deduce that Glazener's argument is that how literature has been defined and categorized has played a crucial role in the value ascribed to Wheatley's poetry during different times in history. To prove this point, the author delves deeply into several interpretations of Wheatley's poetry ... For this reason, Literature in the Making is an excellent choice for the dedicated student of literature"". * W. Cole Williamson, Journal of American Culture * Nancy Glazener's Literature in the Making, a work of stunning range, erudition, and good sense, reacquaints us with literature's multifarious meanings in the era before the institutional hegemony of the academic English department. This book tells an important story of how nineteenth-century Americans first came to think of literature as the currency of their public culture and how new models of disciplinarity and professional expertise subsequently weakened that culture. * Deidre Lynch, author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History * Literature in the Making offers a timely history of the idea of 'literature' and of the course of its study in the academy. Using the U.S. as a case study, Nancy Glazener shows how the divergence of 'amateur' and 'expert' discussions of the literary arts stemmed from broad social and geopolitical transformations and considers what was lost in the process. Embracing contemporary challenges to the significance of literary study as an opportunity for introspection and positive change, this deeply engaging and beautifully written work argues for an expansive definition of literature and a more inclusive public culture. Its astute and comprehensive analysis and its auspicious suggestions for how to move forward make this a book everyone in the humanities should read. * Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative * Literature in the Making excavates the complex cultural negotiations that produced the category of 'literature,' a concept that would then undergird the emergent discipline of 'English.' Parsing ideas about the literary in relation to evolving social distinctions between public and expert culture, Glazener's timely and important book steps into urgent scholarly conversations about the status of disciplines in what Louis Menand has called the 'post-disciplinary' era. * Elizabeth Renker, author of The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History *

"Upon careful reflection, the reader will deduce that Glazener's argument is that how literature has been defined and categorized has played a crucial role in the value ascribed to Wheatley's poetry during different times in history. To prove this point, the author delves deeply into several interpretations of Wheatley's poetry ... For this reason, Literature in the Making is an excellent choice for the dedicated student of literature"". * W. Cole Williamson, Journal of American Culture * Nancy Glazener's Literature in the Making, a work of stunning range, erudition, and good sense, reacquaints us with literature's multifarious meanings in the era before the institutional hegemony of the academic English department. This book tells an important story of how nineteenth-century Americans first came to think of literature as the currency of their public culture and how new models of disciplinarity and professional expertise subsequently weakened that culture. * Deidre Lynch, author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History * Literature in the Making offers a timely history of the idea of 'literature' and of the course of its study in the academy. Using the U.S. as a case study, Nancy Glazener shows how the divergence of 'amateur' and 'expert' discussions of the literary arts stemmed from broad social and geopolitical transformations and considers what was lost in the process. Embracing contemporary challenges to the significance of literary study as an opportunity for introspection and positive change, this deeply engaging and beautifully written work argues for an expansive definition of literature and a more inclusive public culture. Its astute and comprehensive analysis and its auspicious suggestions for how to move forward make this a book everyone in the humanities should read. * Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative * Literature in the Making excavates the complex cultural negotiations that produced the category of 'literature,' a concept that would then undergird the emergent discipline of 'English.' Parsing ideas about the literary in relation to evolving social distinctions between public and expert culture, Glazener's timely and important book steps into urgent scholarly conversations about the status of disciplines in what Louis Menand has called the 'post-disciplinary' era. * Elizabeth Renker, author of The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History *"

Literature in the Making excavates the complex cultural negotiations that produced the category of 'literature,' a concept that would then undergird the emergent discipline of 'English.' Parsing ideas about the literary in relation to evolving social distinctions between public and expert culture, Glazener's timely and important book steps into urgent scholarly conversations about the status of disciplines in what Louis Menand has called the 'post-disciplinary' era. * Elizabeth Renker, author of The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History * Literature in the Making offers a timely history of the idea of 'literature' and of the course of its study in the academy. Using the U.S. as a case study, Nancy Glazener shows how the divergence of 'amateur' and 'expert' discussions of the literary arts stemmed from broad social and geopolitical transformations and considers what was lost in the process. Embracing contemporary challenges to the significance of literary study as an opportunity for introspection and positive change, this deeply engaging and beautifully written work argues for an expansive definition of literature and a more inclusive public culture. Its astute and comprehensive analysis and its auspicious suggestions for how to move forward make this a book everyone in the humanities should read. * Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative * Nancy Glazener's Literature in the Making, a work of stunning range, erudition, and good sense, reacquaints us with literature's multifarious meanings in the era before the institutional hegemony of the academic English department. This book tells an important story of how nineteenth-century Americans first came to think of literature as the currency of their public culture and how new models of disciplinarity and professional expertise subsequently weakened that culture. * Deidre Lynch, author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History * Upon careful reflection, the reader will deduce that Glazener's argument is that how literature has been defined and categorized has played a crucial role in the value ascribed to Wheatley's poetry during different times in history. To prove this point, the author delves deeply into several interpretations of Wheatley's poetry ... For this reason, Literature in the Making is an excellent choice for the dedicated student of literature . * W. Cole Williamson, Journal of American Culture *

Upon careful reflection, the reader will deduce that Glazener's argument is that how literature has been defined and categorized has played a crucial role in the value ascribed to Wheatley's poetry during different times in history. To prove this point, the author delves deeply into several interpretations of Wheatley's poetry ... For this reason, Literature in the Making is an excellent choice for the dedicated student of literature . * W. Cole Williamson, Journal of American Culture * Nancy Glazener's Literature in the Making, a work of stunning range, erudition, and good sense, reacquaints us with literature's multifarious meanings in the era before the institutional hegemony of the academic English department. This book tells an important story of how nineteenth-century Americans first came to think of literature as the currency of their public culture and how new models of disciplinarity and professional expertise subsequently weakened that culture. * Deidre Lynch, author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History * Literature in the Making offers a timely history of the idea of 'literature' and of the course of its study in the academy. Using the U.S. as a case study, Nancy Glazener shows how the divergence of 'amateur' and 'expert' discussions of the literary arts stemmed from broad social and geopolitical transformations and considers what was lost in the process. Embracing contemporary challenges to the significance of literary study as an opportunity for introspection and positive change, this deeply engaging and beautifully written work argues for an expansive definition of literature and a more inclusive public culture. Its astute and comprehensive analysis and its auspicious suggestions for how to move forward make this a book everyone in the humanities should read. * Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative * Literature in the Making excavates the complex cultural negotiations that produced the category of 'literature,' a concept that would then undergird the emergent discipline of 'English.' Parsing ideas about the literary in relation to evolving social distinctions between public and expert culture, Glazener's timely and important book steps into urgent scholarly conversations about the status of disciplines in what Louis Menand has called the 'post-disciplinary' era. * Elizabeth Renker, author of The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History *

"Upon careful reflection, the reader will deduce that Glazener's argument is that how literature has been defined and categorized has played a crucial role in the value ascribed to Wheatley's poetry during different times in history. To prove this point, the author delves deeply into several interpretations of Wheatley's poetry ... For this reason, Literature in the Making is an excellent choice for the dedicated student of literature"". * W. Cole Williamson, Journal of American Culture * Nancy Glazener's Literature in the Making, a work of stunning range, erudition, and good sense, reacquaints us with literature's multifarious meanings in the era before the institutional hegemony of the academic English department. This book tells an important story of how nineteenth-century Americans first came to think of literature as the currency of their public culture and how new models of disciplinarity and professional expertise subsequently weakened that culture. * Deidre Lynch, author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History * Literature in the Making offers a timely history of the idea of 'literature' and of the course of its study in the academy. Using the U.S. as a case study, Nancy Glazener shows how the divergence of 'amateur' and 'expert' discussions of the literary arts stemmed from broad social and geopolitical transformations and considers what was lost in the process. Embracing contemporary challenges to the significance of literary study as an opportunity for introspection and positive change, this deeply engaging and beautifully written work argues for an expansive definition of literature and a more inclusive public culture. Its astute and comprehensive analysis and its auspicious suggestions for how to move forward make this a book everyone in the humanities should read. * Priscilla Wald, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative * Literature in the Making excavates the complex cultural negotiations that produced the category of 'literature,' a concept that would then undergird the emergent discipline of 'English.' Parsing ideas about the literary in relation to evolving social distinctions between public and expert culture, Glazener's timely and important book steps into urgent scholarly conversations about the status of disciplines in what Louis Menand has called the 'post-disciplinary' era. * Elizabeth Renker, author of The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History *"

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Nancy Glazener is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 (Duke University Press).

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