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Thus sciences humaines would have to be translated as “humanities,” which deprives it of scientific status, insofar as scientific status is understood in the US. While French allows for the common ellipsis les sciences to refer to the natural sciences, it also allows science to be used by many fields. The term science des arts, if translated as “science of art,” would befuddle many a current American reader. German is much more strict in this regard. The equivalent of the Latin scientia is Wissenschaft, which can refer to any field of study.

There is a plenitude of journals displaying the preservation of philology in Europe, especially in the east, and it is not necessary to encumber the present study with more examples of their content. In the United States, there are very few that retain the term philology, and they are largely premodern in focus. This indicates the European presence of a collective understanding of language, literature, and culture that is radically different from that of the United States, where the term “philology” has receded from currency.

1057/9781137375544  Why Is English Literature? include English, but for Campbell, and for the American mind, literature is English. The year 1912 marked another important milestone at Columbia, for it witnesses the first offerings of literature in English translation: “Comparative Literature 1–2: Greek and Latin Classics in English Translation” (Columbia Catalogue 1912: 37); and in 1913 “Comparative Literature 3–4: Masterpieces of European Literature” (35). These were subsequently augmented by “Classical Civilization” courses on Greek and Roman civilization.

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