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Making the English Canon : Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700 1770
Overview
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 analyzes the tensions that inhabited the categories of national literature and public culture at the moment of their emergence.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521641272
- ISBN-10: 0521641276
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: January 1999
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.33 pounds
- Page Count: 296
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