Abstract

Introduction: The Originating Force of Eighteenth-Century criticism PART 1: METAMORPHOSES 1. Practical Theorist: Dryden's Variety of Models 2. The Paradox of Refinement: Progress and Decline in Literature 3. So Far Retir'd from Happy Pieties: The Rise of Modern Myth PART 2: JUDGEMENT AND VALUES, LITERARY AND SOCIAL 4. Non-Disputandum: Hume's Critique of Criticism 5. Estrangement: The Problem of Ethics and Aesthetics 6. Kinds, Canons, and Readers PART 3: METHODS AND AIMS 7. Johnson and the Contraries of Criticism 8. The New Rhetoricians: Semiotics, Theory, and Psychology 9. What is Poetry? Janus: Criticism and the Contemporary Notes Index

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