Tell your friends about this item:
Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700–1770 Kramnick, Jonathan Brody (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700–1770
Kramnick, Jonathan Brody (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
Jonathan Brody Kramnick's book examines the formation of the English canon over the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century. Kramnick details how the idea of literary tradition emerged out of a prolonged engagement with the institutions of cultural modernity, from the public sphere and national identity to capitalism and the print market.
296 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 13, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521641272 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 296 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 237 × 22 mm · 540 g |
| Language | English |