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Literary Transmission and Authority: Dryden and Other Writers

By Earl Miner , Jennifer Brady

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521032016, 9780521032018
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4974178 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Pages
176\176
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Dryden defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters. This book looks at Dryden's literary relationships with Ben Jonson and with French authors (notably Corneille); at issues raised by the work thought to be his greatest by Romantic and contemporary readers, Fables Ancient and Modern; and at Samuel Johnson's Life of Dryden. This book has implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.

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