Abstract
At a time when even the disciplinary nature of literary studies is subjected to intense questioning, the lessons of the past may provide useful points of orientation. By reviewing how, in the work of Hugh Blair, Thomas Warton, Henry Hallam and John Churton Collins, the combination of the rhetorical, historical, and comparatist considerations shaped the study of English literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the article draws attention to elements of the old paradigm which in the restructuring of the discipline can in no way be ignored.
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