“The study of
English . . . isn’t a science, and so the “research” you do is, as my colleague
Louis Menand has pointed
out, archival futzing aside, not really research.” So says Adam Gopnik in
the New Yorker blog for 27 August 2013.
Now that almost
no English professors are guilty of “archival futzing,” is there any reason
that universities should support English departments?
I am pleased to know that my years of transcribing and analyzing 19th century documents and trying to make a biographical narrative from them have finally been properly labeled: "ARCHIVAL FUTZING."
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