The Meaning of Literature

by Timothy J. Reiss

Book Overview

In this searching and wide-ranging book, Timothy J. Reiss seeks to explain how the concept of literature that we accept today first took shape between the mid-sixteenth century and the early seventeenth, a time of cultural transformation. Drawing on literary, political, and philosophical texts from Central and Western Europe, Reiss maintains that by the early eighteenth century divergent views concerning gender, politics, science, taste, and the role...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080149947X
• ISBN13: 9780801499470
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher