# The Death of English Literature - By James Marriott  ## Metadata - Author: [[Substack]] - Full Title: The Death of English Literature - By James Marriott - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: English literature was once central to culture and taught as a noble, moral pursuit. Now the subject is in decline, with falling reading rates and students losing interest. Departments cope by mimicking sciences and selling “transferable skills,” but literature risks becoming marginal. - URL: https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-death-of-english-literature - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > The subject remains an academic anomaly, a scholarly discipline premised on the acquisition not of knowledge but of aesthetic experience; on the unlikely marriage of (in Collini’s happy phrase) “beauty and the footnote”. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01ke4znx4an8aca7ehffzx2xak))