Essays Towards a Critical Method (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1893 collection of essays represents a Victorian freethinker’s attempts to infuse literary criticism with modern, logical thinking on the level of science, law, philosophy, and medicine. Includes the long essay “Science in Criticism,” as well as “Mr. Howell’s Novels,” “The Fable of the Bees,” and “The Art of Tennyson.”