Lynch, Deidre

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"One of the most common - and wounding- misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? …

Deidre Shauna Lynch is professor of English at Harvard University and the Chancellor Jackman Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning, also published by the Univers…

Of the many charges laid against literary scholars, one of the most common - and perhaps the most wounding - is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachment…

"Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most common--and perhaps the most wounding--is that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and addres…