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.

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This study tries, through a systematic and historical analysis of the concept of critical authority, to write 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Domsch, Sebastian,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 47
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Physical Description:1 online resource (410 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note on Texts
  • A The Age of Criticism
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Contemporary Discussions of Criticism and the Critic
  • B The Authority of Criticism
  • 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
  • C Conclusion – Distance and Democracy
  • Distance and Democracy
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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