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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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The turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and poetics, writers such as Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, and Ben Jonson laid the foundations of critical discourse in English, and the English word "critic" began, for the first time, to suggest expertise in literary judgment. Yet the conspicuously ambivalent attitude of these critics toward criticism'and the persistent fear that they would be misunderstood, marginalized, scapegoated, or otherwise "branded with the dignity of a critic"'suggests that the position of the critic in this period was uncertain. In Inventing the Critic in Renaissance England, William Russell reveals that the critics of the English Renaissance did not passively absorb their practice from Continental and classical sources but actively invented it in response to a confluence of social and intellectual factors. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Renaissance -- England.
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Renaissance. |
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England. |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Criticism -- Great Britain -- History.
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Criticism. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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English literature -- Early modern. |
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1500-1700 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Recorded Books, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781644531921 (electronic book) |
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1644531925 (electronic book) |
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EB00812115 Recorded Books |
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