Literary Authority An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy
Literary Authority: An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy

This book is the cultural history of an idea which now seems so self-evident as barely to be worth stating: through writing imaginative literature, an author can accrue significant and lasting economic and cultural power. We take for granted, now, that authority dwells in literature and in being its...

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1. Verfasser: Willan, Claude (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, CA Stanford University Press [2023]
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
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Zusammenfassung:This book is the cultural history of an idea which now seems so self-evident as barely to be worth stating: through writing imaginative literature, an author can accrue significant and lasting economic and cultural power. We take for granted, now, that authority dwells in literature and in being its author. This state of affairs was not naturally occurring, but deliberately invented. This book tells the story of that invention. The story's central figures are Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson. But its narrative begins in the 1680s, with the last gasp of the bond linking literary to political authority. While Jacobite poets celebrated (and mourned) the Stuart dynasty, Whig writers traced the philosophical and aesthetic consequences of the accession of William of Orange. Both groups left behind sets of literary devices ready-made to confer and validate authority. Claude Willan challenges the continued reign of the "Scriblerian" model of the period and shows how that reign was engineered. In so doing he historicizes the relationship between "good" and "bad" writing, and suggests how we might think about literature and beauty had Pope and Johnson not taken literary authority for themselves. What might literature have looked like, and what could we use it for, he provocatively asks
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
ISBN:9781503635272
DOI:10.1515/9781503635272

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