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The Eighteenth Century

Series The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 4

Edited by H. B. Nisbet and Claude Rawson

Publication Date 2005

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521300094

Hardback ISBN-10
0521300096

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521300094

Overview

This is the most comprehensive account to date 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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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction: Criticism and Tradition

Genres

Language and Style

Themes and Movements

Literature and Other Disciplines

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