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The making of the English literary canon : from the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century /

It is widely accepted among literary scholars that canon-formation began in the eighteenth century when scholarly editions and critical treatments of older works, designed to educate readers about the national literary heritage, appeared for the first time. In The Making of the English Literary Cano...

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Main Author: Ross, Trevor Thornton, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1998]
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Canon (Literature)
Criticism > Great Britain > History.
English poetry > History and criticism.
Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Literary criticism.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780773566996
0773566996
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Early gestures
  • 2. Albion's Parnassus and the professional author
  • 3. The uses of the dead
  • 4. Value into knowledge
  • 5. The fall of Apollo
  • 6. Reading the canon
  • 7. A basis for criticism
  • Epilogue : how poesy became literature.

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