Richard Terry

Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past

1660-1781

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Produktbeschreibung

Concentrating on the period 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. Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past also analyzes the various kinds of occasion on which the contents of the literary past are rehearsed. Discussed, for example, is the rise of Poets' Corner as a national shrine for the consecration of literary worthies; and the author also considers a wide range of poetic genres that lent themselves to recitals of the literary past: the funeral elegy, the progress-of-poesy poem and the session of the poets poem. The book concludes that the opening up and ordering of the English literary past occurs earlier than is generally supposed; and the same also applies to the process by which women writers achieve their own distinctive form of canonical recognition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780198186236
• ISBN-10: 0198186231
• Artikelnr.: 21090505

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
1.: 'Literature': The Morphology of a Concept
2.: The Progress of Poesy: Making an English Canon
3.: Authorial Dictionaries and the Cult of Fame
4.: Myths of Origin: The Canon of Pre-Chaucerian Poetry
5.: Dryden and the Idea of a Literary Tradition
6.: Teaching English Literature
7.: Johnson's Lives of the Poets
8.: Making the Female Canon
9.: Classicists and Gothicists: The Division of the Estate
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index