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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824105203321

Titolo

Ridiculous critics : Augustan Mockery of critical judgment / / edited by Philip Smallwood and Min Wild

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61148-616-5

1-61148-615-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

801/.950941

Soggetti

Criticism - Great Britain - History - 18th century

English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Part I: LAUGHING WITH REASON; Part II: THE LANGUAGE AND APPEARANCE OF RIDICULE; Part III: LEGACIES OF RIDICULE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Ridiculous Critics </span><span>offers an outline of eighteenth-century literary criticism that undermines its stuffy reputation. This history highlights the contempt, jocularity, irony, and buffoonery that also make up its critical spirit, with passages from critics, poets, novelists, and literary commentators celebrated and obscure. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>