Sociable criticism in England, 1625-1725 / Paul Trolander and Zeynep Tenger.

Author/creator Trolander, Paul, 1956-
Other author Tenger, Zeynep, 1957-
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press, ©2007.
Description233 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Criticism--Social aspects. --England. --History. --17th century.
Criticism--Social aspects. --England. --History. --18th century.
Transmission of texts--England. --History. --17th century.
Transmission of texts--England. --History. --18th century.
Literature and society--England. --History. --17th century.
Literature and society--England. --History. --18th century.
England--Intellectual life. --17th century.
England--Intellectual life. --18th century.

Contents Introduction : literary criticism and seventeenth-century literary culture -- Critical commonplaces : manuscript production and sociable critical judgment -- Katherine Philips and her circle : coterie critics -- Front matters : Margaret Cavendish's prefaces and the margins of sociable criticism -- Impudence and polite conversation : rules of coterie discussion and Dyden's Essay of dramatick poesie -- Performing criticism : Villiers's The rehearsal and the discourse of friendship -- Friends in Christ and denizens of the stage : religious reform's challenge to coterie criticism -- Speaking for the magistrate : John Dennis and critical regulation -- Sociable criticism in print : Addison's Spectator and the personality of the critic.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-224) and index.
LCCN 2006028173
ISBN0874139694 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780874139693 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR63 .T76 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold