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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... literature in the eigh- teenth century , Ross's comprehensive history traces the evolution of cultural attitudes towards literature in English society , highlighting the diverse interests and assumptions that defined and shaped the ...
... literature in the eigh- teenth century , Ross's comprehensive history traces the evolution of cultural attitudes towards literature in English society , highlighting the diverse interests and assumptions that defined and shaped the ...
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... ( Literature ) . I. Title . PR161.R68 1998 821.009 C97-901156-6 Typeset in New Baskerville 10/12 by Caractéra inc . , Quebec City For my parents , Alistair and Thérèse This page intentionally McGill - Queen's University Press 1998.
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... Literature 156 Value and Cultural Change 165 5 The Fall of Apollo 173 Sessions of the Poets 174 " I lisp'd in Numbers , for the Numbers came ” : Pope and the Poetic Compulsion 184 The Rejection of Classicism 196 PART FOUR HIERARCHY ...
... Literature 156 Value and Cultural Change 165 5 The Fall of Apollo 173 Sessions of the Poets 174 " I lisp'd in Numbers , for the Numbers came ” : Pope and the Poetic Compulsion 184 The Rejection of Classicism 196 PART FOUR HIERARCHY ...
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... literature . How that culture thought and felt about its literature , and how those perceptions changed from Skelton's time to Smart's , are the subjects of this history . The differences between the images tell of this change . In the ...
... literature . How that culture thought and felt about its literature , and how those perceptions changed from Skelton's time to Smart's , are the subjects of this history . The differences between the images tell of this change . In the ...
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... literature of the near or distant past , and of preserving that literature in the hope of maintaining the culture that helped to produce it . This process , a complicated one and one that has received intense scrutiny of late , can be ...
... literature of the near or distant past , and of preserving that literature in the hope of maintaining the culture that helped to produce it . This process , a complicated one and one that has received intense scrutiny of late , can be ...
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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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