...David Fairer The College of William & Mary 2000 43 Historical Criticism and the English Canon: A Spenserian Dispute in the 1750s The recent surge of interest in how a concept of the English...

..., January 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8794011 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 1 2 1 The First Information Age: Women and the Making of the English Literary Canon Susan Carlile California State University, Long Beach Betty Schellenberg. Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture: 1740...

... “ancient” Scottish tradition posed to the standard English literary history, with its canon based on Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, etc. Richard Hurd James Macpherson literary history English canon Scottish literature Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

... a distinctly English canon. Likewise, Thomas Van der Goten s chapter also examines how annotation contributes to burgeoning concepts of nation. Focusing on topographical annotation, particularly in works that describe the border between Scotland and England, he illustrates how these intensely fraught spaces...

... and the Vendible Canon Michael Gavin Rutgers University Thomas F. Bonnell. The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry, 1765 – 1810 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2008). Pp. xiv + 387. $99 J...

... approximately (74). Productive misreadings such as Christabel mark the distance between the lost national past of the bardic imaginary and present- day assertions of English literary nationalism. Mistakes are the point. This spectacular rereading of a canonical poem is the last chapter of Strab- one s book...

...). As a whole, Aravamudan’s book brims with insights on constructions of the Orient, and especially on the history of British and French fiction dur- ing the eighteenth century. One comes away with a clearer picture of English canon formation, as well as a better understanding of the parameters of nov...

... and the English canon is naught but a critical misunderstanding of con- ceptual and literary history.52 The publication of a more recent article by Terry in Eighteenth-Century Life provoked a vigorous controversy in the same journal about the status of eighteenth...

... (Bethlehem: Lehigh Univ., 2009); and Jonathan Brody Kramnick The Making of the English Canon, PMLA 112 (1997): 1,087 1,101. 5. Edmund Spenser, The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser, ed. John Hughes, 6 vols. (London: Jacob Tonson, 1715). Hughes s Remarks on the Fairy Queen, hereafter referred to by page...

... “The Call of the Popular” Revisited; Or, English Literary History’s Resistance to Balladry Corrected Dianne Dugaw University of Oregon Steve Newman. Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular...

... research has uncovered the “memorialising strategies” in sixteenth-century verse miscellanies that helped “canonise a line of English poets, beginning with Sidney.”19 The printed miscellanies of the eighteenth century have a similar effect, with Shakespeare entering into the national literary canon...

... historians such as Edmund Gosse, George Saints- bury, Andrew Lang, and Walter Raleigh (one of the first professors of English at Oxford) promulgate with small variations essentially the same canon as the Victorians, a development that Corman finds rather depressing. For him, inevitably, such critics...

... or work There are other general complications with the specific results, touched upon in the following discussion. Yet even with such conditional acceptance, the DMI is very suggestive, helping to confirm some accepted modern critical ideas about the English poetic canon, as well as opening up...

... associated with the English canon, the rise of empire, and “the transition of liberty and letters from classical Greece and Rome through to modern Britain.” 31 The progress poem analyzes the historical development of almost every aspect of British society: economics, in Richard Glover's London...

... by the image of the sanctified father of the English novel, a serious artist defined by his literary “ambition and innovation.” 3 Most modern Defovians are aware that their subject was not regarded as an author of any import until half a century after his death. This second, more recent revolution...

... the by now several- centuries- long and consistently inconsistent usages of the term, William Uvicchio says of the undulating and accreting definitions of the Oxford English Dictionary: The combination of material of the past which has acquired literary or historical significance with printed matter...

...) suggesting that by then the word novel was used the way it is today. With Anna Barbauld s The British Novelists, a fifty- volume set of reprints (1810), the novel in English began to have a canon. And Barbauld s canon significantly begins with Richardson, who knew even dur- ing his lifetime that he...

... with sacred music, thereby emphasizing the link between church and state, between High Anglicanism and English national identity. This meant canonizing the Elizabethan and Jacobean sacred repertoire, emphasizing such compos- ers as Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tomkins, Thomas...

... or of the conflict it reflects between the Austrian envoy Gal- las and his English “allies.” Gallas felt betrayed by his allies and was eventu- ally banned from the English court, in part for publishing, in the Whiggish Daily Courant, the controversial peace preliminaries that the ministers were not ready...

...Margaret J. M. Ezell This essay examines the ways in which the single-authored, period literary history has been challenged since the original Oxford History of English Literature series appeared in the mid twentieth century. The volumes in the new Oxford English Literary History appearing...