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The Constitution of Literature : Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism /
The Constitution of Literature challenges the prevailing understanding of the relationship between literature and democracy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when both literature and democracy were acquiring their modern forms. Against the heroic story of criticism shaping the modern...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Rethinking the History of Criticism
- Introduction: Habermas and the Resistance to Reading in Early English Literary Criticism
- 1. Radical Literacy and Radical Democracy in the 1640s
- 2. "God forgive you Common-wealths-men"
- 3. "Avoid Disputes"
- 4. Early Eighteenth-Century Rules for Reading
- 5. Hume, the Politics of Passion, and Reading
- 6. Samuel Johnson, the Constitution, and the Exuberance of Signification
- Conclusion: The Enlightenment and the Unfinished Project of Deconstruction
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index