Philology by James Grantham Turner
The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
A concise intellectual history that traces how the study of ancient and modern texts, languages, and cultural artifacts developed into a dominant scholarly method in the nineteenth century, shaping what became the modern humanities; it explains philology’s practices — close textual scrutiny, comparative linguistics, and historical reconstruction — shows how institutional and national contexts both propelled and later fragmented the field into separate disciplines, and argues for the continuing value of its historically grounded, text-centered approach.
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- 2014
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- British
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- English
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