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Making the English canon : print-capitalism and the cultural past, 1700-1770 /

This book offers an original examination of the formation of the English canon during the first two thirds of the eighteenth century, looking in particular at the treatment of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Through close readings of periodical essays, editions, treatises, reviews, disquisitions,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kramnick, Jonathan Brody
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the modernity of the past
  • 1. The structural transformation of literary history
  • 2. The mode of consecration: between aesthetics and historicism
  • 3. Novel to lyric: Shakespeare in the field of culture, 1752-1754
  • 4. The cultural logic of late feudalism: or, Spenser and the romance of scholarship, 1754-1762
  • 5. Shakespeare's nation: the literary profession and the "shades of ages"
  • Afterword: the present crisis.