Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth CenturyMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 20 трав. 1998 р. - 411 стор. 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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... Eighteenth Century It is widely accepted among literary scholars that canon - formation began in the eighteenth century when scholarly editions and criti- cal treatments of older works , designed to educate readers about the national ...
... Eighteenth Century It is widely accepted among literary scholars that canon - formation began in the eighteenth century when scholarly editions and criti- cal treatments of older works , designed to educate readers about the national ...
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From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century Trevor Ross. The Making of the English Literary Canon From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century TREVOR ROSS McGill - Queen's University Press Montreal & Kingston • London ...
From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century Trevor Ross. The Making of the English Literary Canon From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century TREVOR ROSS McGill - Queen's University Press Montreal & Kingston • London ...
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... eighteenth century Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-7735-1683-2 ( bnd ) ISBN 0-7735-2080-5 ( pbk ) 1. English poetry - History and criticism . 2. Canon ( Literature ) . I. Title . PR161.R68 1998 821.009 C97-901156 ...
... eighteenth century Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-7735-1683-2 ( bnd ) ISBN 0-7735-2080-5 ( pbk ) 1. English poetry - History and criticism . 2. Canon ( Literature ) . I. Title . PR161.R68 1998 821.009 C97-901156 ...
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From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century Trevor Ross. Acknowledgments Material from several chapters has previously appeared in ELH , Modern Language Quarterly , and Renaissance and Reformation . I thank these publications for ...
From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century Trevor Ross. Acknowledgments Material from several chapters has previously appeared in ELH , Modern Language Quarterly , and Renaissance and Reformation . I thank these publications for ...
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... eighteenth century . But the portrait of Skelton suggests that the idea of an English canon predates the eighteenth century , and that a version of canon - formation , one largely non - institutional and hence unfamiliar to us now ...
... eighteenth century . But the portrait of Skelton suggests that the idea of an English canon predates the eighteenth century , and that a version of canon - formation , one largely non - institutional and hence unfamiliar to us now ...
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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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