Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth CenturyMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 20 mei 1998 - 411 pagina's An indigenous canon of letters, Ross argues, had been both the hope and aim of English authors since the Middle Ages. Early authors believed that promoting the idea of a national literature would help publicize their work and favour literary production in the vernacular. Ross places these early gestures toward canon-making in the context of the highly rhetorical habits of thought that dominated medieval and Renaissance culture, habits that were gradually displaced by an emergent rationalist understanding of literary value. He shows that, beginning in the late seventeenth century, canon-makers became less concerned with how English literature was produced than with how it was read and received. |
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... to prevailing views of early modern English literature and of how it was first evaluated , promoted , and preserved . Trevor Ross is associate professor of English , Dalhousie University . This page intentionally left blank.
... to prevailing views of early modern English literature and of how it was first evaluated , promoted , and preserved . Trevor Ross is associate professor of English , Dalhousie University . This page intentionally left blank.
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... University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program ( BPIDP ) for its publishing activities . We also acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for ...
... University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program ( BPIDP ) for its publishing activities . We also acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for ...
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... University of Toronto . I thank the department of English at Tor- onto for providing me with financial aid that ... University Press , and Curtis Fahey for his care and attention in copy - editing the work . I am indebted to Brian Corman ...
... University of Toronto . I thank the department of English at Tor- onto for providing me with financial aid that ... University Press , and Curtis Fahey for his care and attention in copy - editing the work . I am indebted to Brian Corman ...
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... university departments of literature for the past decade.35 Though this study does not deal directly with current controversies , it offers an implicit critique of how these debates often sorely lack historical perspective on the issues ...
... university departments of literature for the past decade.35 Though this study does not deal directly with current controversies , it offers an implicit critique of how these debates often sorely lack historical perspective on the issues ...
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CONSEQUENCES OF PRESENTISM | 85 |
DEFINING A CULTURAL FIELD | 145 |
CONSUMPTION AND CANONICHIERARCHY | 207 |
How Poesy Became Literature | 293 |
Notes | 303 |
Index | 383 |
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