Making the Modern Reader - Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies

Summary

Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, "Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?" She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by th

Product details

• Authors: Barbara M. Benedict, Benedict Barbara M.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2018
• EAN: 9780691602059
• ISBN: 978-0-691-60205-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Cultural Studies, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, British Isles, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800