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Ridiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critic's mixed and complex role. The collection assembles critical texts and satirical images chronologically to suggest a vision of the history of eighteenth-century literary crit...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Ridiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critic's mixed and complex role. The collection assembles critical texts and satirical images chronologically to suggest a vision of the history of eighteenth-century literary criticism. Including comic, vicious, heartfelt and absurd passages from critics, poets, novelists and literary commentators celebrated and obscure, the writings range through poetry, fiction, drama, and periodical writing. The anthology also includes two original essays discussing and illustrating the irrepressible spirit of critical ridicule in the period, and commending its value and effect. The first offers an evaluation of the merciless and sometimes shockingly venomous satirical attacks on critical habits and personalities of the eighteenth century. The editors argue that such attacks are reflexive, in the sense that criticism becomes increasingly supple and able to observe and examine its own irresponsible ingenuities from within. The volume's concluding essay supplies an analysis of modern modes of criticism and critical history, and suggests applications across time. We propose that humor's vital force was once an important part of living criticism. The eighteenth-century mockery of critics casts light on a neglected common thread in the history of criticism and its recent manifestations; it prompts questions about the relative absence of comedy from the stories we presently tell about critics dead or alive. The passages invite laughter, both with the critics and at their expense, and suggest the place that ridicule might have had since the eighteenth century in the making of judgments, and in the pricking of critical pretension. For this reason, they indicate the role that laughter may still have in criticism today and provide an encouraging precedent for its future.--Provided by publisher. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xix, 245 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: Laughing with reason: Seriousness and un-seriousness in English critical history -- Classical origins and sources -- Writing the laughing history of criticism -- Self-ridicule -- Overdoing it -- Texts and images -- Part II: The language and appearance of ridicule: A selection -- "Critiques, do your worst": Buckingham's Rehearsal -- Lord Rochester's disdain: "An allusion to Horace" -- Jonathan Swift and my good Lords the critics: A tale of a Tub -- Swift's goddess criticism: The Battle of the Books -- William Whycherley's anti-critical rampagings -- Addison and the art of the critical tittling and tattling -- How not to write literary criticism: The cautions of Pope's Essay -- Tyrants in with and pretenders in criticism: The Guardian -- The critical insect of Thomas Parnell: "The Bookworm: -- A life in criticism: Parnell's Remarks on Zoilus -- Steele and the Big Beast of criticism: The Theatre -- Damning with faint praise: Pope's Epistle to Arbuthnot -- Pope's big sleep of criticsm: The Dunciad -- Henry Fielding's guesswork: The Champion -- Sarah Fielding on critical cackling and gobblings: David Simple -- Henry's Fielding's critical reptiles and slanderers: Tom Jones -- Thomas Edwards's "Airy Petulance": The Cannons of Criticism -- Critical Puffery and scapping: Smollett's Peregrine Pickle -- Smart's practical critic: The Student -- Smart's semicolonic ramblings: The Midwife (I) -- Mrs. Midnight's Art of close reading: The Midwife (II) -- Smart's critical dogs and spiders: The Midwife (III) -- Microscopic and telescopic critics: Johnson's Rambler -- George Stevens's pedasculus: Distress upon Distress -- Critical fishineess: Smart, Rolt, and The Universal Visiter -- Garrick's Witches' brew: "A recipe for a modern critic" -- Critical rodents and The Universal Visiter -- Oliver Goldsmith's specious Idlers: Polite learning in Europe -- Johnson's critical minim: The Idler -- Goldsmith's ciritical spiders and blockheads: The Critical Review -- Alexander Mackenzie's The Hungry Mob of Scriblers and Etchers -- Sterne's Bobs and Trinkets of criticism: Tristram Shandy -- The Review's Cave -- Evan Lloyd and the critic's catacomb of words: The Powers of the Pen -- A connoisseur admiring a dark night piece -- An Old Macaroni Critic at a New Play -- Gibbson's critical overcast: The Decline and Fall -- Gillray's critical Owl -- Dr. Pomposo -- The Critics: A Poem -- The critic at home -- A Connoisseur in Brokers Alley -- Part III: Legacies of Ridicule: The Close of Critical History -- Uncertainties yet more uncertain -- Being serious with theory -- Comedy and contextualization -- Stasis and change -- Dignity, indignity, and the funciton of criticism -- Laughing when reason fails -- Of Dogs and monkeys: An afterword. | |
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| contents | Part I: Laughing with reason: Seriousness and un-seriousness in English critical history -- Classical origins and sources -- Writing the laughing history of criticism -- Self-ridicule -- Overdoing it -- Texts and images -- Part II: The language and appearance of ridicule: A selection -- "Critiques, do your worst": Buckingham's Rehearsal -- Lord Rochester's disdain: "An allusion to Horace" -- Jonathan Swift and my good Lords the critics: A tale of a Tub -- Swift's goddess criticism: The Battle of the Books -- William Whycherley's anti-critical rampagings -- Addison and the art of the critical tittling and tattling -- How not to write literary criticism: The cautions of Pope's Essay -- Tyrants in with and pretenders in criticism: The Guardian -- The critical insect of Thomas Parnell: "The Bookworm: -- A life in criticism: Parnell's Remarks on Zoilus -- Steele and the Big Beast of criticism: The Theatre -- Damning with faint praise: Pope's Epistle to Arbuthnot -- Pope's big sleep of criticsm: The Dunciad -- Henry Fielding's guesswork: The Champion -- Sarah Fielding on critical cackling and gobblings: David Simple -- Henry's Fielding's critical reptiles and slanderers: Tom Jones -- Thomas Edwards's "Airy Petulance": The Cannons of Criticism -- Critical Puffery and scapping: Smollett's Peregrine Pickle -- Smart's practical critic: The Student -- Smart's semicolonic ramblings: The Midwife (I) -- Mrs. Midnight's Art of close reading: The Midwife (II) -- Smart's critical dogs and spiders: The Midwife (III) -- Microscopic and telescopic critics: Johnson's Rambler -- George Stevens's pedasculus: Distress upon Distress -- Critical fishineess: Smart, Rolt, and The Universal Visiter -- Garrick's Witches' brew: "A recipe for a modern critic" -- Critical rodents and The Universal Visiter -- Oliver Goldsmith's specious Idlers: Polite learning in Europe -- Johnson's critical minim: The Idler -- Goldsmith's ciritical spiders and blockheads: The Critical Review -- Alexander Mackenzie's The Hungry Mob of Scriblers and Etchers -- Sterne's Bobs and Trinkets of criticism: Tristram Shandy -- The Review's Cave -- Evan Lloyd and the critic's catacomb of words: The Powers of the Pen -- A connoisseur admiring a dark night piece -- An Old Macaroni Critic at a New Play -- Gibbson's critical overcast: The Decline and Fall -- Gillray's critical Owl -- Dr. Pomposo -- The Critics: A Poem -- The critic at home -- A Connoisseur in Brokers Alley -- Part III: Legacies of Ridicule: The Close of Critical History -- Uncertainties yet more uncertain -- Being serious with theory -- Comedy and contextualization -- Stasis and change -- Dignity, indignity, and the funciton of criticism -- Laughing when reason fails -- Of Dogs and monkeys: An afterword. |
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| spelling | Ridiculous critics : Augustan mockery of critical judgment / edited by Philip Smallwood and Min Wild. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2014] 1 online resource (xix, 245 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. Part I: Laughing with reason: Seriousness and un-seriousness in English critical history -- Classical origins and sources -- Writing the laughing history of criticism -- Self-ridicule -- Overdoing it -- Texts and images -- Part II: The language and appearance of ridicule: A selection -- "Critiques, do your worst": Buckingham's Rehearsal -- Lord Rochester's disdain: "An allusion to Horace" -- Jonathan Swift and my good Lords the critics: A tale of a Tub -- Swift's goddess criticism: The Battle of the Books -- William Whycherley's anti-critical rampagings -- Addison and the art of the critical tittling and tattling -- How not to write literary criticism: The cautions of Pope's Essay -- Tyrants in with and pretenders in criticism: The Guardian -- The critical insect of Thomas Parnell: "The Bookworm: -- A life in criticism: Parnell's Remarks on Zoilus -- Steele and the Big Beast of criticism: The Theatre -- Damning with faint praise: Pope's Epistle to Arbuthnot -- Pope's big sleep of criticsm: The Dunciad -- Henry Fielding's guesswork: The Champion -- Sarah Fielding on critical cackling and gobblings: David Simple -- Henry's Fielding's critical reptiles and slanderers: Tom Jones -- Thomas Edwards's "Airy Petulance": The Cannons of Criticism -- Critical Puffery and scapping: Smollett's Peregrine Pickle -- Smart's practical critic: The Student -- Smart's semicolonic ramblings: The Midwife (I) -- Mrs. Midnight's Art of close reading: The Midwife (II) -- Smart's critical dogs and spiders: The Midwife (III) -- Microscopic and telescopic critics: Johnson's Rambler -- George Stevens's pedasculus: Distress upon Distress -- Critical fishineess: Smart, Rolt, and The Universal Visiter -- Garrick's Witches' brew: "A recipe for a modern critic" -- Critical rodents and The Universal Visiter -- Oliver Goldsmith's specious Idlers: Polite learning in Europe -- Johnson's critical minim: The Idler -- Goldsmith's ciritical spiders and blockheads: The Critical Review -- Alexander Mackenzie's The Hungry Mob of Scriblers and Etchers -- Sterne's Bobs and Trinkets of criticism: Tristram Shandy -- The Review's Cave -- Evan Lloyd and the critic's catacomb of words: The Powers of the Pen -- A connoisseur admiring a dark night piece -- An Old Macaroni Critic at a New Play -- Gibbson's critical overcast: The Decline and Fall -- Gillray's critical Owl -- Dr. Pomposo -- The Critics: A Poem -- The critic at home -- A Connoisseur in Brokers Alley -- Part III: Legacies of Ridicule: The Close of Critical History -- Uncertainties yet more uncertain -- Being serious with theory -- Comedy and contextualization -- Stasis and change -- Dignity, indignity, and the funciton of criticism -- Laughing when reason fails -- Of Dogs and monkeys: An afterword. Ridiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critic's mixed and complex role. The collection assembles critical texts and satirical images chronologically to suggest a vision of the history of eighteenth-century literary criticism. Including comic, vicious, heartfelt and absurd passages from critics, poets, novelists and literary commentators celebrated and obscure, the writings range through poetry, fiction, drama, and periodical writing. The anthology also includes two original essays discussing and illustrating the irrepressible spirit of critical ridicule in the period, and commending its value and effect. The first offers an evaluation of the merciless and sometimes shockingly venomous satirical attacks on critical habits and personalities of the eighteenth century. The editors argue that such attacks are reflexive, in the sense that criticism becomes increasingly supple and able to observe and examine its own irresponsible ingenuities from within. The volume's concluding essay supplies an analysis of modern modes of criticism and critical history, and suggests applications across time. We propose that humor's vital force was once an important part of living criticism. The eighteenth-century mockery of critics casts light on a neglected common thread in the history of criticism and its recent manifestations; it prompts questions about the relative absence of comedy from the stories we presently tell about critics dead or alive. The passages invite laughter, both with the critics and at their expense, and suggest the place that ridicule might have had since the eighteenth century in the making of judgments, and in the pricking of critical pretension. For this reason, they indicate the role that laughter may still have in criticism today and provide an encouraging precedent for its future.--Provided by publisher. Criticism Great Britain History 18th century. English literature History and criticism Theory, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043840 Critique Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh Criticism. fast (OCoLC)fst00883735 English literature Theory, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01930851 Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP Literatur gnd Englisch gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4014777-0 Literaturkritiker gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4167874-6 England gnd 1700-1799 fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Smallwood, Philip, editor. 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