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The British Critical Tradition

A Re-Evaluation

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Gary Day
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Part of the book series: Insights (ISI)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Criticism in Crisis

    • Gary Day
    Pages 1-7

  3. Carlyle’s Metaphorical Dynamic of History: or How to Trace a Grand Narrative in the French Revolution

    • Noël Parker
    Pages 8-28

  4. Matthew Arnold: The Discourse of Criticism

    • Graham Holderness
    Pages 29-37

  5. Samuel Butler: The First Post-Structuralist?

    • Ross Stewart
    Pages 38-48

  6. Oscar Wilde and Reader-Response Criticism

    • B. J. Moore-Gilbert
    Pages 49-66

  7. Is There a Method in his Theory? A. C. Bradley and Contemporary Criticism

    • Adrian Page
    Pages 67-79

  8. E. M. Forster: The Isolation of the Reader

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 80-91

  9. The Moth and the Moth-Hunter: The Literary Criticism of Virginia Woolf

    • Laura Kranzler
    Pages 92-107

  10. D. H. Lawrence: Cliques and Consciousness

    • Jim Reilly
    Pages 108-121

  11. I. A. Richards and the Problem of Method

    • Barry Cullen
    Pages 122-139

  12. George Orwell: The Practical Critic

    • Anthony Crabbe
    Pages 140-152

  13. Reason, Rhetoric, Theory: Empson and de Man

    • Christopher Norris
    Pages 153-169

  14. About Being and Necessity: The Work of Christopher Caudwell

    • Michael Hayes
    Pages 170-180

  15. W. H. Auden as Critic

    • Helena Blakemore
    Pages 181-187

  16. ‘I thought I had provided something better’ — F. R. Leavis, Literary Criticism and Anti-Philosophy

    • Barry Cullen
    Pages 188-212

  17. Raymond Williams and Post-Modernism

    • Tony Pinkney
    Pages 213-229

  18. Frank Kermode: History and Synchronicity

    • Barbara Helm
    Pages 230-237

  19. Vanishing Point: On the Edge of Critical Breakdown

    • Clive Bloom
    Pages 238-243

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 244-257
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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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