The emergence of literary criticism in 18th-century Britain : discourse between attacks and authority

The emergence of literary criticism in 18th-century Britain : discourse between attacks and authority / Sebastian Domsch.

This study is a history of literary criticism from the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th century that not only takes the discursive construction of its (self)representation into account, but also the social and economic conditions of its practice. It is distinctive through its methodology, its...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Domsch, Sebastian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia ; 47,
Subjects:
1800-1899
Criticism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Criticism
Literaturkritik
Great Britain
Großbritannien
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Texts
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Contemporary Discussions of Criticism and the Critic
  • 1 Critical Authority
  • 2 Aristocratic Authority
  • 3 The Authority of Seniority: Ancient and Modern Criticism
  • 4 The Authority of Poetic Genius
  • 5 Learning: Knowledge between Authority and Pedantry
  • 6 Rules and the Critic
  • 7 Taste and the Critic
  • 8 Name-Authority: The Critic as Institution
  • 9 Authority and the Marketplace
  • 10 Institutionalizing Authority: Academies and Reviews
  • Distance and Democracy
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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