03374nam 2200685Ia 450 991078207900332120230912150254.01-282-85489-597866128548970-7735-6699-610.1515/9780773566996(CKB)1000000000521378(SSID)ssj0000382706(PQKBManifestationID)11938041(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382706(PQKBWorkID)10395225(PQKB)11720853(CaPaEBR)403860(Au-PeEL)EBL3331292(CaPaEBR)ebr10141965(CaONFJC)MIL285489(OCoLC)929121687(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/8hgcb0(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/403860(MiAaPQ)EBC3331292(DE-B1597)655466(DE-B1597)9780773566996(MiAaPQ)EBC3245646(EXLCZ)99100000000052137819971017d1998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe making of the English literary canon[electronic resource] from the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century /Trevor RossMontreal ;Buffalo McGill-Queen's University Pressc1998x, 400 pRevision of the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--University of Toronto, 1988).0-7735-1683-2 0-7735-2080-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-381) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Versions of Canonic Harmony -- Early Gestures -- Consequences of Presentism -- Albion’s Parnassus and the Professional Author -- The Uses of the Dead -- Defining a Cultural Field -- Value into Knowledge -- The Fall of Apollo -- Consumption and Canonic Hierarchy -- Reading the Canon -- A Basis for Criticism -- Epilogue -- Notes -- IndexAn 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.Canon (Literature)History and criticismEnglish literatureHistory and criticismCriticismGreat BritainHistoryGreat BritainIntellectual lifeCanon (Literature)History and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.CriticismHistory.820.9Ross Trevor Thornton1961-167418MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782079003321The making of the English literary canon3800881UNINA