Making the English canon : print-capitalism and the cultural past, 1700-1770 / / Jonathan Brody Kramnick [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783036903321
• Autore: Kramnick Jonathan Brody
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1998
• 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
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/005
• Soggetti: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Criticism - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Canon (Literature); Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-281) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.