The constitution of literature : literacy, democracy, and early English literary criticism
The Constitution of Literature examines Restoration and eighteenth-century literary criticism as a debate over theories of reading and argues that literary criticism emerged as a reaction against the role associated with print in the English Civil Wars of the 1640s.
Print Book, English, 2008
Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.), 2008
XIII, 242 p. 24 cm
9780804757867, 0804757860
1014757324
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Preface: Rethinking the History of Criticism iii @toc2:Introduction: Habermas and the Resistance to Reading in Early English Literary Criticism 1 1. Radical Literacy and Radical Democracy in the 1640s 000 2. "God forgive you Common-wealths-men": Dryden and the Project of Restoration 000 3. "Avoid Disputes": The Spectator, the Market, and Criticism 000 4. Early Eighteenth-Century Rules for Reading: An Act of Settlement 000 5. Hume, the Politics of Passion, and Reading 000 6. Samuel Johnson, the Constitution, and the Exuberance of Signification 000 Conclusion: The Enlightenment and the Unfinished Project of Deconstruction 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000