One of the things I try to teach my high school students taking college writing is that depending on the field of study and the research topic, that older scholarship sometimes needs to be handled as an historical document more so than a scholarly document. One of the things that’s great about English literature scholarship is that the window is much much wider for this gray area. I find that a lot of older scholarship, especially from the 1930s-1960s misses a lot of important later […]