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

Making the English canon : print-capitalism and the cultural past, 1700-1770 / Jonathan Brody Kramnick.

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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Main Author: Kramnick, Jonathan Brody
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation > History > 18th century.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Criticism and interpretation > History > 18th century.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Criticism and interpretation > History > 18th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Canon (Literature)
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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