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The Cultural Milieu of Addison's Literary Criticism

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© 2021 University of Texas Press

© 2021 University of Texas Press

Chapters in this book

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

https://doi.org/10.7560/732049-fm

Chapters in this book

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

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