Making the English canon : print-capitalism and the cultural past, 1700-1770 /

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Author / Creator:	Kramnick, Jonathan Brody.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 287 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century. Spenser, Edmund, -- 1552?-1599 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century. Milton, John, -- 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 18th century. Milton, John, -- 1608-1674. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. Spenser, Edmund, -- 1552?-1599. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Canon (Literature) Canon (Literature) Criticism. Intellectual life. Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11130003

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ISBN:	9780511040313 0511040318 9780511117299 0511117299 9780511483653 0511483651 9780511051562 0511051565 9780521065924 0521065925 9780521641272 0521641276
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-281) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This book offers an original examination of the formation of the English canon during the first two thirds of the eighteenth century, looking in particular at the treatment of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Through close readings of periodical essays, editions, treatises, reviews, disquisitions, pamphlets, and poems, Jonathan Brody Kramnick recounts the origins of modern literary study and situates the rise of national literary tradition in the broad context of the making of a public culture.
Other form:	Print version: Kramnick, Jonathan Brody. Making the English canon. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 0521641276

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