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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Where Did Great Books Come From Anyway?

W.B. Carnochan at Stanford Humanities Review,
"spared the demands of a complete genealogy, I will claim unequivocally that "great books" are a nineteenth-century invention, a product of the Victorian cultural climate."
(via Greater Books)
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