The Emergence of Literary Criticism in 18th-Century Britain : Discourse Between Attacks and Authority.

Intro -- Contents -- A Note on Texts -- A. The Age of Criticism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Contemporary Discussions of Criticism and the Critic -- 2.1 Definitions and Evaluations: The State of Criticism -- 2.2 Imagining Criticism -- B. The Authority of Criticism -- 1 Critical Authority -- 2 Aristocratic Authority -- 2.1 Court-Wits and Gentleman Critics -- 2.2 Changes in the System of Patronage -- 3 The Authority of Seniority: Ancient and Modern Criticism -- 4 The Authority of Poetic Genius -- 4.1 The Poet as Critic -- 4.2 Poets and Editors -- 5 Learning: Knowledge between Authority and Pedantry -- 5.1 The Pedant as Exemplary -- 5.2 Polite Learning against Erudition -- 5.3 Specialized Knowledge -- 6 Rules and the Critic -- 6.1 Power Structures -- 6.2 Rules and Reason -- 7 Taste and the Critic -- 7.1 Debating Taste -- 7.2 The Taste of the Audience -- 7.3 The Standard of Taste -- 8 Name-Authority: The Critic as Institution -- 8.1 The Anachronistic Critic: John Dennis -- 8.2 The Institutional Critic: Samuel Johnson -- 9 Authority and the Marketplace -- 9.1 Overproduction -- 9.2 "This process of chymical criticism": The Critic as Gate-Keeper -- 10 Institutionalizing Authority: Academies and Reviews -- 10.1 Courts of Criticism I: The Academy -- 10.2 Courts of Criticism II: The Reviews -- 10.3 "The Theatre of War": Attacks on the Reviews -- C. Conclusion -- Distance and Democracy -- Works Cited -- Index.

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