Making the English canon : print-capitalism and the cultural past, 1700-1770 / Jonathan Brody Kramnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramnick, Jonathan Brody, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation--History--18th century.

Shakespeare, William.

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Criticism and interpretation--History--18th century.

Spenser, Edmund.

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation--History--18th century.

Milton, John.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Criticism--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Criticism.

Canon (Literature).

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jonathan Brody Kramnick's book examines the formation of the English canon over the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century. Kramnick details how the idea of literary tradition emerged out of a prolonged engagement with the institutions of cultural modernity, from the public sphere and national identity to capitalism and the print market. Looking at a wide variety of eighteenth-century critical writing, he analyses the tensions that inhabited the categories of national literature and public culture at the moment of their emergence.

Contents:

Introduction: the modernity of the past

1. The structural transformation of literary history

2. The mode of consecration: between aesthetics and historicism

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

5. Shakespeare's nation: the literary profession and the "shades of ages"

Afterword: the present crisis.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-281) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11620-1

1-280-16272-4

0-511-11729-9

0-511-04031-8

0-511-15138-1

0-511-30318-1

0-511-48365-1

0-511-05156-5

OCLC:

437063158