Critical pasts : writing criticism, writing history /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Smallwood, Philip
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, [2004]
Series:	Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Subjects:	English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Literature and history > Great Britain. Historiography > Great Britain. Criticism > Great Britain.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : problems and paradoxes in the history of criticism / Philip Smallwood
Literary history, critical history, and the question of "medieval" theory / Stephen Penn
Abandoning theory : towards a social history of critical practices / Paul Trolander and Zeynep Tenger
On (not) writing literary and critical history : Dryden's preface to Fables, ancient and modern / Tom Mason
To "value still the true" : Pope's Essay on criticism and the problem of the historical mode / Philip Smallwood
Johnson's Lives and the genealogy of late eighteenth-century literary history / April London
History and the new historicism : symbol and allegory as poetics of criticism / Gavin Budge
With love and wonder" : Empson, Donne and Milton / Adam Rounce
Truth, aesthetics, history / Robert Eaglestone
The end of criticism : literary criticism economics, and management discourse / Gary Day.