The Cultural Milieu of Addison's Literary Criticism /

The Cultural Milieu of Addison's Literary Criticism / / Lee Andrew Elioseff.

The whole history of literary criticism is illuminated by this analysis of one English critic’s work. It is, in effect, a literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature? Initi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Elioseff, Lee Andrew,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1963
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS FOR REFERENCES
  • Toward a Method for the History of Criticism
  • THE CRITICAL MILIEU
  • 2. The Critic as Anti-Pedant
  • 3. The Narrative Genres
  • 4. The Most Valued Genre
  • ADDISON AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
  • 5. The Nature of the Sublime
  • 6. Pastorals and Politics
  • THE EMPIRICAL TRADITION
  • 7. The Philosophical Background
  • 8. The Pleasures of the Imagination
  • CONCLUSION
  • 9. Neoclassicism: The Last Phase
  • Appendix: Opera and the Decline of English Virtue
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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