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Ridiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critic's mixed and complex role. The collection assembles critical texts and satirical images chronologically to suggest a vision of the history of eighteenth-century literary crit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smallwood, Philip (Editor ), Wild, Min (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2014]
Temas:
1700-1799
Criticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Critique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism.
English literature > Theory, etc.
Literatur
Englisch
Literaturkritiker
Great Britain.
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Laughing with reason: Seriousness and un-seriousness in English critical history
  • Classical origins and sources
  • Writing the laughing history of criticism
  • Self-ridicule
  • Overdoing it
  • Texts and images
  • Part II: The language and appearance of ridicule: A selection
  • "Critiques, do your worst": Buckingham's Rehearsal
  • Lord Rochester's disdain: "An allusion to Horace"
  • Jonathan Swift and my good Lords the critics: A tale of a Tub
  • Swift's goddess criticism: The Battle of the Books
  • William Whycherley's anti-critical rampagings
  • Addison and the art of the critical tittling and tattling
  • How not to write literary criticism: The cautions of Pope's Essay
  • Tyrants in with and pretenders in criticism: The Guardian
  • The critical insect of Thomas Parnell: "The Bookworm:
  • A life in criticism: Parnell's Remarks on Zoilus
  • Steele and the Big Beast of criticism: The Theatre
  • Damning with faint praise: Pope's Epistle to Arbuthnot
  • Pope's big sleep of criticsm: The Dunciad
  • Henry Fielding's guesswork: The Champion
  • Sarah Fielding on critical cackling and gobblings: David Simple
  • Henry's Fielding's critical reptiles and slanderers: Tom Jones
  • Thomas Edwards's "Airy Petulance": The Cannons of Criticism
  • Critical Puffery and scapping: Smollett's Peregrine Pickle
  • Smart's practical critic: The Student
  • Smart's semicolonic ramblings: The Midwife (I)
  • Mrs. Midnight's Art of close reading: The Midwife (II)
  • Smart's critical dogs and spiders: The Midwife (III)
  • Microscopic and telescopic critics: Johnson's Rambler
  • George Stevens's pedasculus: Distress upon Distress
  • Critical fishineess: Smart, Rolt, and The Universal Visiter
  • Garrick's Witches' brew: "A recipe for a modern critic"
  • Critical rodents and The Universal Visiter
  • Oliver Goldsmith's specious Idlers: Polite learning in Europe
  • Johnson's critical minim: The Idler
  • Goldsmith's ciritical spiders and blockheads: The Critical Review
  • Alexander Mackenzie's The Hungry Mob of Scriblers and Etchers
  • Sterne's Bobs and Trinkets of criticism: Tristram Shandy
  • The Review's Cave
  • Evan Lloyd and the critic's catacomb of words: The Powers of the Pen
  • A connoisseur admiring a dark night piece
  • An Old Macaroni Critic at a New Play
  • Gibbson's critical overcast: The Decline and Fall
  • Gillray's critical Owl
  • Dr. Pomposo
  • The Critics: A Poem
  • The critic at home
  • A Connoisseur in Brokers Alley
  • Part III: Legacies of Ridicule: The Close of Critical History
  • Uncertainties yet more uncertain
  • Being serious with theory
  • Comedy and contextualization
  • Stasis and change
  • Dignity, indignity, and the funciton of criticism
  • Laughing when reason fails
  • Of Dogs and monkeys: An afterword.

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