"I first became aware of Tom Miller's work at a 4C's conference . . . At that time I was impressed with the thoroughness of his scholarship and the meticulousness of his research. . . . For my purposes it filled a vacuum that no other work on the history of English studies had done. . . . Miller's book provides a full history of English studies as seen from the viewpoint of scholars stationed at the end of twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. It is an important contribution to the discipline's history."--Winifred Bryan Horner, Rhetoric Review"Miller's achievement here is twofold. He provides a well researched, well written history of the issues and events that prompted and encouraged the institutionalization of English as a subject AND he breaks important ground historiographically by insisting all the way through that the study of educational institutions and of rhetoric in particular can reveal cultural motives and ideologies. . . . It really is a fine piece of work."--Nan Johnson"An original work stuffed with data and scholarship about early college-level instruction in the English language. . . . The Formation of College English has excellent chapters on the teaching of language and literacy in Scottish and Irish universities and in English universities and dissenting academies. . . .The book also contains excellent chapters on the contributions made to literary studies by Adam Smith, George Campbell, and Hugh Blair. These chapters are so comprehensive--and so good--that they can profitably be read by graduate students as introductions to the rhetorical and cultural work of these canonical figures . . . anyone who is interested in the future of English studies ought to read this superb exploration of its past."--Sharon Crowley, CCC