Jonathan Brody Kramnick

Making the English Canon

Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700 1770

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780521641272
• ISBN-10: 0521641276
• Artikelnr.: 29017695

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.