The Invention of English Criticism

1650-1760

AvMichael Gavin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Early literary criticism was undisciplined. Unlike the staid essays and monographs of later academic scholarship, English criticism first appeared in the contentious world of the London theater: dramatists and other poets argued about their craft in contending prefaces and dedications, and their disputes spilled into the public sphere in pamphlet wars, mock epics, lampoons, and even novels. Across these forms, criticism was personal, political, and unconcerned with analysis for its own sake. Yet this unruly discourse laid the groundwork both for modern literary criticism and for the discipline of literary studies. The Invention of English Criticism explores the earliest uses of criticism and the attempts by some to convert a field of literary debate into an archive of useful knowledge. Criticism's undisciplined past thus illuminates its contested, ambivalent, and never fully disciplined present.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-05
Mått:158 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:227
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107101203

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Michael Gavin is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina. Before joining USC he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Research Center at Rice University.

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'In The Invention of English Criticism Michael Gavin addresses an important subject with a shrewd awareness of traditional interests of literary study; contemporary concerns with the continuities of oral, written and printed media; and a current appreciation of the ways in which gender issues trouble and complicate the broad literary marketplace of the Restoration and eighteenth century. The book features a wide variety of literary players and sites, and deploys a welcome mixture of literary genres to rewrite the history of English critical discourse in an altogether compelling way: a book of significant argumentative reach and of impressive critical and historical sophistication.' Steven Zwicker, Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities in Arts and Sciences, Washington University, St Louis

Innehållsförteckning

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.