Download or read book Literary Relations written by Jane Spencer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.