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The Constitution of Literature challenges the prevailing understanding of the relationship between literature and democracy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when both literature and democracy were acquiring their modern forms. Against the heroic story of criticism shaping the modern public sphere as recounted by Habermas and his followers, it explores how different resistances to democratized reading preoccupied the thinking of the major English literary critics of the time. By paying attention to how critics participated in a debate over theories of reading--its processes for acquiring meaning from the page, its psychological and social effects on individuals, and its diffusion across the population--this book offers a new understanding of the political history of early literary criticism.

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  • Title The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism
  • Author Lee Morrissey
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif
  • Publication date 2007-12-13
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780804757867 / 0804757860
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.05 x 6.36 x 0.83 in (22.99 x 16.15 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects English literature - History and criticism -, English literature - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007038617
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801.950

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2008, Page 329

About the author

Lee Morrissey is Professor of English at Clemson University. He is the author of From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British Literature, 1660-1760 (1999) and the editor of Debating the Canon: A Reader, from Addison to Nafisi (2005).
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