Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. ABBREVIATIONS FOR REFERENCES xi
5. Toward a Method for the History of Criticism 1
6. THE CRITICAL MILIEU
7. 2. The Critic as Anti-Pedant 21
8. 3. The Narrative Genres 49
9. 4. The Most Valued Genre 74
10. ADDISON AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
11. 5. The Nature of the Sublime 95
12. 6. Pastorals and Politics 121
13. THE EMPIRICAL TRADITION
14. 7. The Philosophical Background 145
15. 8. The Pleasures of the Imagination 161
16. CONCLUSION
17. 9. Neoclassicism: The Last Phase 191
18. Appendix: Opera and the Decline of English Virtue 203
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 215
20. INDEX 239