The Invention of English Criticism: 1650-1760

ISBN-13: 9781107498525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 228 str.

Michael Gavin

Opis

An account of the origins and development of literary criticism in the turbulent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century print marketplace.

Recenzje

'The motivating paradox of Michael Gavin's The Invention of English Criticism, 1650–1760 is that the field of literary criticism arose out of attacks on critics. … By grounding his work in book history rather than the history of English as a discipline, or of literary theory, Gavin is firmly planted in scholarship on print culture.' Nicolle Jordan, Modern Philology

Spis treści

Introduction: the textualization of judgment; 1. Criticism and the institutions of drama, 1645–75; 2. Politics of Parnassus; 3. Women among critics; 4. Criticism and the poetry of Anne Finch; 5. Disciplining the dunces: literary knowledge in The Dunciad Variorum; 6. Boswell and Co.: conversation and criticism in the age of print; Bibliography.