description: Dryden defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters. This book looks at Dryden's literary relationships with Ben Jonson and with French authors (notably Corneille); at issues raised by the work thought to be his greatest by Romantic and contemporary readers, Fables Ancient and Modern; and at Samuel Johnson's Life of Dryden. This book has implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.
language: English
title: Literary Transmission and Authority: Dryden and Other Writers
titlecomplete: Literary Transmission and Authority: Dryden and Other Writers (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, Series Number 17)
series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
publisher: Cambridge University Press