Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781

Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781 / Richard Terry.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Terry, Richard (Richard G.)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
1100-1799
Criticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
British literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
English poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Literary historians > Great Britain.
Canon (Literature)
Criticism
English literature > Theory, etc.
Literary historians
Literature and history
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. 'Literature': The Morphology of a Concept
  • 2. The Progress of Poesy: Making an English Canon
  • 3. Authorial Dictionaries and the Cult of Fame
  • 4. Myths of Origin: The Canon of Pre-Chaucerian Poetry
  • 5. Dryden and the Idea of a Literary Tradition
  • 6. Teaching English Literature
  • 7. Johnson's Lives of the Poets
  • 8. Making the Female Canon
  • 9. Classicists and Gothicists: The Division of the Estate

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