books.google.co.uk - The Constitution of Literature challenges the prevailing understanding of the relationship between literature and democracy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when both literature and democracy were acquiring their modern forms. Against the heroic story of criticism shaping the modern public...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Constitution_of_Literature.html?id=3W6rAAAAIAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Constitution of Literature