AFAIK, one of my second-years did something on Irvine Welsh for Paper One last year, so he *is* being taught in the English department - and since the stuff I do is, often quite literally, Welsh's equivalents writing six hundred years earlier, there would be serious problems if he was considered not part of the 'English' canon.
OTOH, I often feel quite awkward telling people I do 'Middle English', since I actually really don't - and only a small proportion of them have actually heard of 'Older Scots', or realise that anyone was writing in Scotland before Henryson...
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on 2008-12-15 11:44 pm (UTC)OTOH, I often feel quite awkward telling people I do 'Middle English', since I actually really don't - and only a small proportion of them have actually heard of 'Older Scots', or realise that anyone was writing in Scotland before Henryson...