The Cambridge history of literary criticism. Volume 4, The eighteenth century [electronic resource] / edited by H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson.

Contributor Nisbet, H. B. (Hugh Barr) editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Description1 online resource (xviii, 933 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Note:Introduction : criticism and tradition -- The institution of criticism in the eighteenth century / Douglas Lane Patey -- Ancients and moderns / Douglas Lane Patey -- Genres -- Poetry, 1660-1740 / James Sambrook -- Poetry, after 1740 / William Keach -- Drama, 1660-1740 / Maximillian E. Novak -- Drama, after 1740 / John Osborne -- Prose fiction : France / English Showalter -- Prose fiction : Great Britain / Michael McKeon -- Prose fiction : Germany and the Netherlands / C.W. Schoneveld -- Historiography / Michel Baridon -- Biography and autobiography / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Criticism and the rise of periodical literature / James Basker -- Language and style -- Theories of language / Nicholas Hudson -- The contributions of rhetoric to literary criticism / George A. Kennedy -- Theories of style / Pat Rogers -- Generality and particularity / Leo Damrosch -- The sublime / Jonathan Lamb -- Themes and movements -- Sensibility and literary criticism / John Mullan -- Women and literary criticism / Terry Castle -- Primitivism / Maximillian E. Novak -- Medieval revival and the Gothic / Peter Sabor -- Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau and the Encyclopedie / Charles A. Porter -- German literary theory from Gottsched to Goethe / Klaus L. Berghahn -- The Scottish enlightenment / Joan H. Pittock -- Canons and canon formation / Jan Gorak -- Literature and other disciplines -- Literature and philosophy / Susan Manning -- The psychology of literary creation and literary response / James Sambrook -- Taste and aesthetics (i) Shaftesbury and Addison : criticism and the public taste / David Marshall -- (ii) The rise of aesthetics from Baumgarten to Humboldt / Hans Reiss -- Literature and the other arts (i) Ut pictura poesis / David Marshall -- (ii) The picturesque / David Marshall -- (iii) Literature and music / Dean Mace -- (iv) Parallels between the arts / Deam Mace -- Classical scholarship and literary criticism / Glenn W. Most -- Biblical scholarship and literary criticism / Marcus Walsh -- Science and literary criticism / Michael Baridon.

Note:This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.

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