Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700-1770

By Jonathan Brody Kramnick

Book Overview

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 analyses the tensions that inhabited the categories of national literature and public culture at the moment of their emergence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521641276
• ISBN13: 9780521641272
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"