Bonfiglio T.P. Why is English Literature. Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century

New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 160 p. — ISBN10: 1137379871; ISBN13: 978-1137379870.
Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century.Can Spanish Count As an English Course?
A Tropology of Letters.
The Lost Continent: Grammar and Philology.
Curricula vitae linguae.
Parity in the Early MLA.
Blindness and Hindsight: The Misprisions of Graff and Warner.
Allophone and Alien.
Martial Culture and the MLA.
The Prison House of Languages.
Conclusion: Language Needs New Language.