Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781

Poetry and the making of the English literary past, 1660-1781 / Richard Terry.

Author/creator	Terry, Richard (Richard G.)
Other author/creator	Oxford University Press.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Description	vii, 354 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Subject(s)	Criticism--Great Britain --History --18th century. English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700 --History and criticism --Theory, etc. English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500 --History and criticism --Theory, etc. English literature--18th century --History and criticism --Theory, etc. British literature--History and criticism --Theory, etc. Literature and history--Great Britain --History --18th century. Literature and history--Great Britain --History --17th century. English poetry--History and criticism --Theory, etc. Criticism--Great Britain --History --17th century. Literary historians--Great Britain. Canon (Literature)

Contents	Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Literature': The Morphology of a Concept 11 -- 2. The Progress of Poesy: Making an English Canon 35 -- 3. Authorial Dictionaries and the Cult of Fame 63 -- 4. Myths of Origin: The Canon of Pre-Chaucerian Poetry 93 -- 5. Dryden and the Idea of a Literary Tradition 142 -- 6. Teaching English Literature 169 -- 7. Johnson's Lives of the Poets 216 -- 8. Making the Female Canon 252 -- 9. Classicists and Gothicists: The Division of the Estate 286.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [328]-344) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2002265652
ISBN	0198186231 (alk. paper)

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