Critical Pasts - Writing Criticism, Writing History

This volume assembles new thinking on the theory, practice, and cultural value of the history of literary criticism. Focusing on a theme that has attracted relatively little developed theoretical commentary hitherto, the authors of these essays draw on specialist areas of critical history - and different kinds of problems - to illustrate the paradoxes that attend any attempt to write the history of critical writing.

About the author

Philip Smallwood is Professor of English at the University of Central England in Birmingham, and the author, most recently, of Reconstructing Criticism: Pope's "Essay on Criticism" and the Logic of Definition (Bucknell University Press, 2003) and Johnson's Critical Presence: Image, History, Judgment (Ashgate Publishing, 2004).

Product details

• Authors: Philip Smallwood
• Assisted by: Philip Smallwood (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611482171
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-217-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 220 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures; Bucknell Apercus: Histori; Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures; Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultu; Bucknell Apercus: Histori
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies