English Literature Overseas: A Report on a British Conference

PMLA ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 78 (4-Part2) ◽  
pp. 26-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ashmead
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Deputy Director ◽  
Director General ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
British Council ◽  
King's College ◽  
Deputy Director General

The British Council conference on the teaching of English Literature overseas was held at King's College, Cambridge, England, 16–18 July 1962. As K. R. Johnstone, Deputy Director-General of the British Council, pointed out, this was the first conference on teaching English Literature overseas, though such teaching has been in progress for over a century. More than seventy-five participants came from twenty-five different countries, and had taught in many more. The discussions of the conference were taped and will be published in a 60,000 word book by the firm of Methuen.

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