GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 36

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 1 mark · MTA

Which was the first institution in the world to teach English literature?

University of Oxford,Oxford
Royal Polytechnic Institution,London
College of William and Mary,Williamsburg,Virginia
Fort William College,Calcutta

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Correct answer: MTA

Explanation

The final official key awards marks to all for this question. Accordingly the stored type is MTA and no single institution is presented as the uniquely correct choice. “First” depends on distinctions among teaching language, rhetoric and literature and establishing a formal curriculum or chair; the source does not specify a criterion that resolves those distinctions.

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