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8. L. C. Knights, Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson, London,
1937-
9. Lily Campbell, Shakespeare's Histories: Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy,
San Marino, 1947; Sir Charles Firth, "The Political Significance of
Swift's Gulliver's Travels" Essays: Historical and Literary, Oxford,
1938, pp. 210-241.
10. Cf. bibliography, Section II.
1 1 . Prosper de Barante, De la litterature francaise fendant le dix-huitieme
siecle, Paris, 3rd ed., 1822, p. v. The preface is not to be found in
the first edition, of 1809. Barante's theory is brilliantly applied by
Harry Levin in "Literature as an Institution," Accent, VI (1946),
pp. 159-68. Reprinted in Criticism (ed. Schorer, Miles, McKenzie),
New York, 1948, pp. 546-53.
12. Ashley H. Thorndike, Literature in a Changing Age, New York,
1921, p. 36.
13. Q. D. Leavis, Fiction and the Reading Public, London, 1932.
14. Some work on these questions: Alfred A. Harbage, Shakesfeare's Au-
dience, New York, 1941; R. J. Allen, The Clubs of Augustan
London, Cambridge, Mass., 1933; Chauncey B. Tinker, The Salon
and English Letters, New York, 191 5; Albert Parry, Garrets and
Pretenders: a History of Bohemianism in America, New York, 1933.
There is a whole series of studies on periodicals, e.g.: Walter Graham,
English Literary Periodicals, New York, 1931; Edmund Blunden,
Leigh Hunt's Exajniner Examined, London, 19285 William Beach
Thomas, The Story of the Spectator, New York, 1928; George L.
Nesbitt, Benthamite Reviezving: Twelve Years of the Westminster
Review, 1824-36, New York, 1934; Miriam M. H. Thrall, Rebel-
lious Eraser's, New York, 1934; Edwin M. Everett, The Party of
Humanity: The Fortnightly Review and its Contributors, 1865-74,
Chapel Hill, 1939; Leslie A. Marchand, The Athenaeum, Chapel
Hill, 1 941; Francis E. Mineka, The Dissidence of Dissent: The
Monthly Repository, 1806-1838, Chapel Hill, 1944; Frank L. Mott,
A History of American Magazines, 3 vols., Cambridge, Mass., 1930-
38; Frederick J. Hoffman, C. Allen and C. F. Ulrich, The Little
Magazine: A History aitd a Bibliography, Princeton, 1946.
15. Cf. Grace Overmyer, Government and the Arts, New York, 1939.
On Russia, cf. the writings of Freeman, Max Eastman, W. Frank, etc.
16. Georgi V. Plekhanov, Art and Society, New York, 1936, pp. 43, 63,
etc. A translation of "Isskusstvo i obschestvennaya zhizn," Sozre-
mennik II (1912), Part XI, pp. 291-314, Part XII, pp. 108-23, and
III (191 3), Part I, pp. 130-61. Chiefly ideological discussions are:
A. Cassagne, La Theorie de Part four Part en France, Paris, 1906;