Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 2: Literature, the Arts, and the Aesthetic in Britain

by Michael McKeon

Enlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially literature entails a double reflection: a reflection of the world, and a reflection on the process by which that reflection is accomplished. Instead "neoclassicism" and "Augustanism" have been falsely construed as involving a one-dimensional imitation of classical texts and an unselfconscious representation of the world. In fact these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684484766
• ISBN13: 9781684484768
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher