Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

"[A] landmark work . . . which showed how literary evaluation draws authority from the institutions-principally universities-within which it is practiced." -The New Yorker
Winner of the René Wellek Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association

John Guillory challenges the most fundamental premises of the canon debate by resituating the problem of canon formation in an entirely new theoretical framework. The result is a book that promises to recast not only the debate about the lit...