UID:
almahu_9948022231102882
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 933 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139055352 (ebook)
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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Introduction : criticism and tradition --
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The institution of criticism in the eighteenth century /
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Ancients and moderns /
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Genres --
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Poetry, 1660-1740 /
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Poetry, after 1740 /
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Drama, 1660-1740 /
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Drama, after 1740 /
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Prose fiction : France /
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Prose fiction : Great Britain /
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Prose fiction : Germany and the Netherlands /
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Historiography /
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Biography and autobiography /
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Criticism and the rise of periodical literature /
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Language and style --
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Theories of language /
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The contributions of rhetoric to literary criticism /
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Theories of style /
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Generality and particularity /
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The sublime /
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Themes and movements --
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Sensibility and literary criticism /
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Women and literary criticism /
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Primitivism /
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Medieval revival and the Gothic /
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Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau and the Encyclopédie /
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German literary theory from Gottsched to Goethe /
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The Scottish enlightenment /
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Canons and canon formation /
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Literature and other disciplines --
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Literature and philosophy /
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The psychology of literary creation and literary response /
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Taste and aesthetics (i) Shaftesbury and Addison : criticism and the public taste /
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(ii) The rise of aesthetics from Baumgarten to Humboldt /
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Literature and the other arts (i) Ut pictura poesis /
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(ii) The picturesque /
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(iii) Literature and music /
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(iv) Parallels between the arts /
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Classical scholarship and literary criticism /
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Biblical scholarship and literary criticism /
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Science and literary criticism /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521300094
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521300094
