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• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• Prologue
• Conventions
• Acknowledgments
• PART I. FROM THE FIRST PHILOLOGISTS TO 1800
• 1. “Cloistered Bookworms, Quarreling Endlessly in the Muses’ Bird-Cage”: From Greek Antiquity
• 2. “A Complete Mastery of Antiquity”: Renaissance, Reformation, and Beyond
• 3. “A Voracious and Undistinguishing Appetite”: British Philology to the Mid-Eighteenth Century
• 4. “Deep Erudition Ingeniously Applied”: Revolutions of the Later Eighteenth Century
• PART II. ON THE BRINK OF THE MODERN HUMANITIES, 1800 TO THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY
• 5. “The Similarity of Structure Which Pervades All Languages”: From Philology to Linguistics, 18
• 6. “Genuinely National Poetry and Prose”: Literary Philology and Literary Studies, 1800–­1860
• 7. “An Epoch in Historical Science”: The Civilized Past, 1800–­1850
• I. Altertumswissenschaft and Classical Studies
• II. Archaeology
• III. History
• 8. “Grammatical and Exegetical Tact”: Biblical Philology and Its Others, 1800–­1860
• PART III. THE MODERN HUMANITIES IN THE MODERN UNIVERSITY, THE MID-NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTUR
• 9. “This Newly Opened Mine of Scientific Inquiry”: Between History and Nature: Linguistics after
• 10. “Painstaking Research Quite Equal to Mathematical Physics”: Literature, 1860–­1920
• 11. “No Tendency toward Dilettantism”: The Civilized Past after 1850
• I. ‘Classics’ Becomes a Discipline
• II. History
• III. Art History
• 12. “The Field Naturalists of Human Nature”: Anthropology Congeals into a Discipline, 1840–­1
• 13. “The Highest and Most Engaging of the Manifestations of Human Nature”: Biblical Philology an
• I. The Fate of Biblical Philology
• II. The Rise of Comparative Religious Studies
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index