Literary Relations
Author: Jane Spencer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005-10-27
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0199262969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The English literary tradition has been constituted as a patriarchal family. Great fathers are supposed to pass on a place to worthy sons, and the status of women's writing within the canon is contested. This book shows how kinship and mentoring relationships between writers helped to form the national tradition. Writers featured include Dryden, Congreve, Johnson, Burney, the Fieldings, the Wordsworths, and Austen.