Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terry, Richard, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Criticism.

Literary historians.

Canon (Literature).

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

English literature.

English literature--Theory, etc--History and criticism--Middle English, 1100-1500--Great Britain.

English literature--Theory, etc--History and criticism--18th century--Great Britain.

British literature--Theory, etc--History and criticism--18th century--Great Britain.

British literature.

Literature and history--History--17th century.

Literature and history.

English poetry--Theory, etc--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Criticism--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 354 p.)

Other Title:

Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring how the English literary past was made, this book charts how antiquarians have unearthed the raw materials of the British tradition and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Literature': The Morphology of a Concept 11

2. The Progress of Poesy: Making an English Canon 35

3. Authorial Dictionaries and the Cult of Fame 63

4. Myths of Origin: The Canon of Pre-Chaucerian Poetry 93

5. Dryden and the Idea of a Literary Tradition 142

6. Teaching English Literature 169

7. Johnson's Lives of the Poets 216

8. Making the Female Canon 252

9. Classicists and Gothicists: The Division of the Estate 286.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780191718557 (ebook) :

0191718556 (ebook) :