{"product_id":"the-constitution-of-literature-lee-morrissey-9780804757867","title":"The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Constitution of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the prevailing understanding of the relationship between literature and democracy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when both literature and democracy were acquiring their modern forms. Against the heroic story of criticism shaping the modern public sphere as recounted by Habermas and his followers, it explores how different resistances to democratized reading preoccupied the thinking of the major English literary critics of the time. By paying attention to how critics participated in a debate over theories of reading--its processes for acquiring meaning from the page, its psychological and social effects on individuals, and its diffusion across the population--this book offers a new understanding of the political history of early literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Morrissey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804757860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804757867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.05h x 6.36w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2008 pg. 329","brand":"Lee Morrissey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46571041194239,"sku":"9780804757867","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c02dd50-de41-43f4-99d0-f234b3933944.jpg?v=1738807073","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-constitution-of-literature-lee-morrissey-9780804757867","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}