Making the modern reader cultural mediation in early modern literary anthologies
Making the Modern Reader, the first full treatment of the early modern anthology, is in part a history of the London printing trade as well as of the professionalization of criticism. Benedict thoroughly documents the historical redefinition of the reader: once a member of a communal literary cultur...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Princeton, NJ
Princeton Univ. Pr.
1996
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Geschichte 1700-1800
> Geschichte 1600-1700
> Geschichte 1500-1800
> Bloemlezingen
> Canon
> Engels
> Leseverhalten - History and criticism
> Letterkunde
> Englisch
> Geschichte
> Literatur
> English literature
> History and criticism
> Literature publishing
> History
> Books and reading
> Literature and anthropology
> Editing
> Canon (Literature)
> Literaturkritik
> Rezeption
> Kanon
> Buchmarkt
> Anthologie
> Leser
> Leseverhalten
> Großbritannien
> England
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Making the Modern Reader, the first full treatment of the early modern anthology, is in part a history of the London printing trade as well as of the professionalization of criticism. Benedict thoroughly documents the historical redefinition of the reader: once a member of a communal literary culture, the reader became private and introspective, morally and culturally shaped by choices in reading. She argues that eighteenth-century collections promised the reader that culture could be acquired through the absorption of literary values. This process of cultural education appealed to a middle class seeking to become discriminating consumers of art. By addressing this neglected genre, Benedict contributes a new perspective on the tension between popular and high culture, between the common reader and the elite. This book will interest scholars working in cultural studies and those studying non-canonical texts as well as eighteenth-century literature in general. |
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| Beschreibung: | 252 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0691025789 0-691-02578-9 |