LEADER 03374nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910782079003321 005 20230912150254.0 010 $a1-282-85489-5 010 $a9786612854897 010 $a0-7735-6699-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773566996 035 $a(CKB)1000000000521378 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000382706 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11938041 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000382706 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10395225 035 $a(PQKB)11720853 035 $a(CaPaEBR)403860 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331292 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141965 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285489 035 $a(OCoLC)929121687 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/8hgcb0 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/403860 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331292 035 $a(DE-B1597)655466 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773566996 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245646 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000521378 100 $a19971017d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe making of the English literary canon$b[electronic resource] $efrom the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century /$fTrevor Ross 210 $aMontreal ;$aBuffalo $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc1998 215 $ax, 400 p 300 $aRevision of the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--University of Toronto, 1988). 311 $a0-7735-1683-2 311 $a0-7735-2080-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-381) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tVersions of Canonic Harmony -- $tEarly Gestures -- $tConsequences of Presentism -- $tAlbion?s Parnassus and the Professional Author -- $tThe Uses of the Dead -- $tDefining a Cultural Field -- $tValue into Knowledge -- $tThe Fall of Apollo -- $tConsumption and Canonic Hierarchy -- $tReading the Canon -- $tA Basis for Criticism -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aAn 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. 606 $aCanon (Literature)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCriticism$zGreat Britain$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life 615 0$aCanon (Literature)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCriticism$xHistory. 676 $a820.9 700 $aRoss$b Trevor Thornton$f1961-$0167418 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782079003321 996 $aThe making of the English literary canon$93800881 997 $aUNINA