Jonathan Brody Kramnick

Making the English Canon

Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700 1770

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the English canon in the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780521065924
• ISBN-10: 0521065925
• Artikelnr.: 23580444

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the modernity of the past; Part I: 1. The structural
transformation of literary history; 2. The mode of consecration: between
aesthetics and historicism. Part II: 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; Part III. 5.
Shakespeare's nation: the literary profession and the 'shades of ages';
Afterword: the present crisis.