Download or read book Error and the Academic Self written by Seth Lerer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt, from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney, from George Eliot to Paul de Man, this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, emigres, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and rhetoric, literary criticism and literary theory.