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The British Critical Tradition

A Re-Evaluation

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Gary Day

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xi

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Introduction: Criticism in Crisis
- Gary Day
Pages 1-7
Carlyle’s Metaphorical Dynamic of History: or How to Trace a Grand Narrative in the French Revolution
- Noël Parker
Pages 8-28
Matthew Arnold: The Discourse of Criticism
- Graham Holderness
Pages 29-37
Samuel Butler: The First Post-Structuralist?
- Ross Stewart
Pages 38-48
Oscar Wilde and Reader-Response Criticism
- B. J. Moore-Gilbert
Pages 49-66
Is There a Method in his Theory? A. C. Bradley and Contemporary Criticism
- Adrian Page
Pages 67-79
E. M. Forster: The Isolation of the Reader
- Andrew Smith
Pages 80-91
The Moth and the Moth-Hunter: The Literary Criticism of Virginia Woolf
- Laura Kranzler
Pages 92-107
D. H. Lawrence: Cliques and Consciousness
- Jim Reilly
Pages 108-121
I. A. Richards and the Problem of Method
- Barry Cullen
Pages 122-139
George Orwell: The Practical Critic
- Anthony Crabbe
Pages 140-152
Reason, Rhetoric, Theory: Empson and de Man
- Christopher Norris
Pages 153-169
About Being and Necessity: The Work of Christopher Caudwell
- Michael Hayes
Pages 170-180
W. H. Auden as Critic
- Helena Blakemore
Pages 181-187
‘I thought I had provided something better’ — F. R. Leavis, Literary Criticism and Anti-Philosophy
- Barry Cullen
Pages 188-212
Raymond Williams and Post-Modernism
- Tony Pinkney
Pages 213-229
Frank Kermode: History and Synchronicity
- Barbara Helm
Pages 230-237
Vanishing Point: On the Edge of Critical Breakdown
- Clive Bloom
Pages 238-243
Back Matter

Pages 244-257

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About this book

This collection offers a reinterpretation of the history of British criticism by exploring the work of neglected as well as celebrated critics. It contextualizes the current crisis and shows how traditional criticism anticipates and to some extent parallels the concerns of postmodern critical theory. The issue of value is also addressed as is the question of the future direction of criticism making this volume an important contribution to contemporary critical debate.

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Book Title: The British Critical Tradition
Book Subtitle: A Re-Evaluation
Editors: Gary Day
Series Title: Insights
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22424-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-07481-4Published: 11 January 1993
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-22424-1Published: 12 January 1993
Series ISSN: 2947-2830
Series E-ISSN: 2947-2849
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 257
Topics: Literary Theory, Critical Theory, Cultural History

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