Conditions for Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780198122418 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 168 str.

Ian Small

Opis

This book studies changes in the practice of literary criticism in nineteenth-century Britain and locates those changes within wider movements in intellectual culture. The growth of knowledge and its subsequent institutionalization in universities produced new forms of intellectual authority. Small examines these processes in a wide variety of disciplines, including economics, historiography, sociology, psychology, and philosophical aesthetics, and explores their impact upon literary criticism.

Recenzje

'Conditions for Criticism is a refreshing and enlightening work of literary and intellectual history which sets at least two of the leading Aesthetes in their proper context and thus advances considerably our understanding of their writings, in an argument conducted with compelling lucidity.' Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths' College, London, Review of English Studies, Vol. 44, No. 176, Nov '93