"The turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and poetics, writers such as Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, and Ben Jonson laid the foundations of critical discourse in English, and the English word...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Russell, William M. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Newark University of Delaware Press [2020]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1500-1699 Literaturkritiker Großbritannien Criticism / Great Britain / History English literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism Renaissance / England Criticism English literature / Early modern Renaissance England Great Britain 1500-1700 Criticism, interpretation, etc History
Zusammenfassung:	"The turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and poetics, writers such as Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, and Ben Jonson laid the foundations of critical discourse in English, and the English word "critic" began, for the first time, to suggest expertise in literary judgment. Yet the conspicuously ambivalent attitude of these critics toward criticism-and the persistent fear that they would be misunderstood, marginalized, scapegoated, or otherwise "branded with the dignity of a critic"-suggest that the position of the critic in this period was uncertain. In Inventing the Critic in Renaissance England, William Russell reveals that the critics of the English Renaissance did not passively absorb their practice from continental and classical sources but actively invented it in response to a confluence of social and intellectual factors"--
Beschreibung:	xi, 245 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:	9781644531914 9781644531907