Critical pasts : writing criticism, writing history / edited by Philip Smallwood.

Other author Smallwood, Philip.
Format Book
Publication InfoLewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, ©2004.
Descriptionix, 212 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects
English literature--History and criticism. --Theory, etc.
Literature and history--Great Britain.
Historiography--Great Britain.
Criticism--Great Britain.

SeriesAperçus
Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.) ^A587191
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004011309
ISBN083875595X (alk. paper)