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The Rise And Fall of the Man of Letters: Aspects of English Literary Life Since 1800 (Penguin literary criticism) - Tapa blanda

Gross, John

 
9780140144130: The Rise And Fall of the Man of Letters: Aspects of English Literary Life Since 1800 (Penguin literary criticism)
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ISBN 10: 0140144137 ISBN 13: 9780140144130
Editorial: Penguin, 1991

Sinopsis

In this survey, John Gross gives portraits of major literary figures from Frances Jeffrey, the first editor of the "Edinburgh Review", through Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold and many others to the advent of F.R.Leavis and Raymond Williams. He looks at "the higher journalism", the expansion of the reading public, the byways of British liberalism, the rise of English literature as an academic subject and the impact of T.S. Eliot and modernism. In a new afterword he provides updates on the later careers of Cyril Connolly, Geoffrey Grigson and Leavis and discusses the new style of literary critics who have evolved from the universities. Finally he considers the dominant role of the media and entertainment.

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In this survey, John Gross gives portraits of major literary figures from Frances Jeffrey, the first editor of the "Edinburgh Review", through Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold and many others to the advent of F.R.Leavis and Raymond Williams. He looks at "the higher journalism", the expansion of the reading public, the byways of British liberalism, the rise of English literature as an academic subject and the impact of T.S. Eliot and modernism. In a new afterword he provides updates on the later careers of Cyril Connolly, Geoffrey Grigson and Leavis and discusses the new style of literary critics who have evolved from the universities. Finally he considers the dominant role of the media and entertainment.

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Editorial
Penguin
Año de publicación
1991
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0140144137
ISBN 13 
9780140144130
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Número de páginas
368
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