Making the Modern Reader - Barbara M. Benedict - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk
Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, "Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?" She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by th
Making the Modern Reader - Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies - Bog af Barbara M. Benedict - Hardback
Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, \Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?\ She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped to create. Benedict reveals how anthologies of the time often created a consensus of literary and aesthetic values by providing..