Making the English Canon
Subtitle: Print Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700-1770
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521641272
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1700 to c 1800; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English Renaissance Literature (1500-1700); Literary Criticism; Theory, etc; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; English literature; England; Great Britain; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Theory, etc; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Milton, John; Shakespeare, William; Spenser, Edmund; Criticism; Shakespeare, William,; 18th century; Canon (Literature); Early modern, 1500-1700; History; History and criticism
First sentence: Few notions may appear so essential to a literary canon as the antiquity of its authors.