Screen LibraryMaking 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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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©1996 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Princeton legacy library edition. |
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Princeton legacy library
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| Summary: |
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 |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-242) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691656434 (hardback) : 0691656436 (hardback) : |
| Index Number: | PR441 |
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G239.561.9 I561.064 |
| Call Number: | I561.064/B463 |
| Contents: | Introduction: The Various Feast -- Ch. 1. Collecting Culture before the Restoration -- Ch. 2. Reading and Heteroglossia in the Restoration -- Ch. 3. Discriminating Readers in the Early Eighteenth Century -- Ch. 4. Reading Systems in the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- Ch. 5. Reading for Oneself in the Late Eighteenth Century -- Conclusion: The Private Possession of Culture. |