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1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-281) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the modernity of the past -- 1. Structural transformation of literary history -- 2. Mode of consecration: between aesthetics and historicism -- 3. Novel to lyric: Shakespeare in the field of culture, 1752-1754 -- 4. 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. |
| Summary |
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, pamphlets, and poems, Jonathan Brody Kramnick recounts the origins of modern literary study and situates the rise of national literary tradition in the broad context of the making of a public culture. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century.
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. |
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Shakespeare, William. |
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Spenser, Edmund. |
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Milton, John. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Criticism. |
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Canon (Literature)
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Canon (Literature) |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kramnick, Jonathan Brody. Making the English canon. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 0521641276 (DLC) 98021089 (OCoLC)39042867 |
| ISBN |
0511040318 (electronic book) |
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9780511040313 (electronic book) |
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0511117299 (electronic book) |
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9780511117299 (electronic book) |
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0521641276 (hardback) |
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9780521641272 (hardback) |
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9780511483653 (electronic book) |
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0511483651 (electronic book) |
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