TY  - BOOK
AU  - DeMarco,Kathleen Ann
TI  - Defending the Intellectual Life in Early Modern to Postmodern Times: an Anthology of Literary Apologies
SN  - 9780773418042
AV  - PR21 .D46 2012 
U1  - 820.9 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lewiston
PB  - The Edwin Mellen Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - History
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Critique
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - English
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - English Literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - 7
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - DEFENDING THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN EARLY MODERN TO POST MODERN TIMES: An Anthology of Literary Apologies; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Abstract; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One -- Defenses in The Early Modern Period; Chapter Two -- Defenses in the Neoclassical Period; Chapter Three -- Defenses in the Romantic Period; Chapter Four -- Defenses in the Victorian Period; Chapter Five -- Defenses in the Modern Period; Chapter Six -- Defenses in the Postmodern Period; Bibliography; Index
N2  - The book analyzes various writings by poets and cultural critics on the topic of being an intellectual. Figures like Pope, Sidney, Milton, Eliot, and even contemporaries like Christopher Hitchens are covered. The first few deal with what poetry is, and the latter more up to date essays try to explain intellectual life in modern times. Present-day readers might find some of these defenses to be obscure, but this book breaks down what critics meant even during the Early Modern Period, and the Renaissance. British writers from Sir Philip Sidney to Christopher Hitchens use defenses of literature to
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