Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781
By: Richard Terry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; British literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; English poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Literary historians -- Great Britain; Canon (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Literature': The Morphology of a Concept 11; title: 2. The Progress of Poesy: Making an English Canon 35; title: 3. Authorial Dictionaries and the Cult of Fame 63; title: 4. Myths of Origin: The Canon of Pre-Chaucerian Poetry 93; title: 5. Dryden and the Idea of a Literary Tradition 142; title: 6. Teaching English Literature 169; title: 7. Johnson's Lives of the Poets 216; title: 8. Making the Female Canon 252; title: 9. Classicists and Gothicists: The Division of the Estate 286.