Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past: 1660-1781

This book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness.


Author: Richard Terry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/27/2001
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780198186236

About the Author

Richard Terry is Reader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature, University of Sunderland

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