Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1649–1697), an English essayist and country gentleman, published two major literary biobibliographies, Censura celebriorum authorum (1690) and De re poetica (1694). In this essay, Kelsey Jackson Williams discusses the texts within the genre of historia literaria and contemporary understandings of literature. In doing so, he engages with current debates surrounding canon formation and the shifts in disciplinary boundaries that followed in the wake of the Battle of the Books. Early modern canons and definitions of “literature” differed radically from their modern equivalents, and a close reading of Blount’s work offers a window onto this forgotten literary landscape.
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机译:托马斯·波普·布朗特爵士(1649–1697年)是英国杂文作家和乡村绅士,他出版了两部主要的生物传记书目,即《名侦探》(Censura celebriorum Authorum,1690年)和《德·波蒂卡》(De re poetica,1694年)。在本文中,凯尔西·杰克逊·威廉姆斯(Kelsey Jackson Williams)讨论了历史文学和当代文学理解范畴内的文本。在此过程中,他参与了有关佳能形成的最新辩论,以及书籍之战之后随之而来的学科界限的变化。早期的现代经典和“文学”的定义与现代的经典著作完全不同,对布朗特作品的仔细阅读为了解这种被遗忘的文学景观提供了一个窗口。
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