Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700-1770 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521641272)

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.

Author: Jonathan Brody Kramnick
ISBN-10: 0521641276
ISBN-13: 9780521641272
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/13/1999
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d