The Constitution of Literature
Author | : Lee Morrissey |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : 0804757860 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780804757867 |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Constitution of Literature by : Lee Morrissey
Download or read book The Constitution of Literature written by Lee Morrissey and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.