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Making the English Canon: Print Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700-1770
Making the English Canon Print Capitalism and the Cultural Past 17001770 Author:Jonathan Brody Kramnick 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. Lo... more »oking at a wide variety of eighteenth-century critical writing, he analyzes the tensions that inhabited the categories of national literature and public culture at the moment of their emergence.« less