Emergence of Dramatic Criticism in England - From Jonson to Pope

Informationen zum Autor PAUL D. CANNAN is Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, USA. Klappentext Focusing on dramatic criticism, this book explores the self authorizing strategies of writers such as Jonson, Dryden, Aphra Behn, Thomas Rymer, Jeremy Collier and Joseph Addison. Cannan focuses on how they established themselves as critics, and paved the way for the birth of dramatic criticism in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England. Zusammenfassung Focusing on dramatic criticism! this book explores the self authorizing strategies of writers such as Jonson! Dryden! Aphra Behn! Thomas Rymer! Jeremy Collier and Joseph Addison. Cannan focuses on how they established themselves as critics! and paved the way for the birth of dramatic criticism in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Author as Critic The 'Laughing Critick' The Parson Turn'd Critick 'Criticks by Profession' The Journalistic Critic from The Gentleman's Journal to The Spectator

List of contents

Introduction The Author as Critic The 'Laughing Critick' The Parson Turn'd Critick 'Criticks by Profession' The Journalistic Critic from The Gentleman's Journal to The Spectator

Product details

• Authors: P Cannan, P. Cannan, Paul D. Cannan
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2006
• EAN: 9781403971272
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7127-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Literature, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature, general, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literature, Modern—18th century, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern