10. The Demise of Disciplinary Authority

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction: Change in the Humanities and Higher Education 1
5. NUMBERS
6. 1. Democratization and Decline? The Consequences of Demographic Change in the Humanities 17
7. 2. Funding Trends in the Academic Humanities, 1970-1995: Reflections on the Stability of the System 32
8. CLASSROOMS
9. 3. Ignorant Armies and Nighttime Clashes: Changes in the Humanities Classroom, 1970-1995 63
10. 4. Evolution and Revolution: Change in the Literary Humanities, 1968-1995 84
11. BOOKS, LIBRARIES, READING
12. 5. Humanities and the Library in the Digital Age 107
13. 6. The Practice of Reading 122
14. THEORY 141
15. 7. “Beyond Method” 143
16. 8. Changing Epochs 162
17. 9. The Pursuit of Metaphor 179
18. INSTITUTIONS
19. 10. The Demise of Disciplinary Authority 201
20. 11. Scholarship as Social Action 220
21. Appendix: Tables and Figures on B.A.s and Ph.D.s in the Humanities, 1966-1993 245
22. About the Contributors 259
23. Index 261