Ridiculous Critics 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.
Ridiculous Critics 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.
Philip Smallwood is Emeritus Professor of English at Birmingham University and Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Humanities at Bristol University, UK. He is the author of various books and essays on the history and theory of modern and eighteenth century criticism. Min Wild's monograph on Smart's Midwife-Christopher Smart and Satire-was published in 2008, and she has recently co-edited an award winning volume of essays on Smart published by Bucknell. She lectures in eighteenth-century literature, philosophy, and poetry at Plymouth University, UK.
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Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I: Laughing with Reason: Seriousness and Un-seriousness in English Critical HistoryClassical Origins and Sources Writing the Laughing History of Criticism Self-Ridicule Overdoing It A Note on 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 Wycherley's Anti-Critical Rampagings Addison and the Art of Critical Tittling and Tattling How Not to Write Literary Criticism: the Cautions of Pope's Essay Tyrants in Wit and Pretenders to 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 Criticism: The Dunciad Henry Fielding's Guesswork: The Champion Sarah Fielding on Critical Cackling and Gobbling: David Simple Henry Fielding's Critical Reptiles and Slanderers: Tom Jones Thomas Edwards' "Airy Petulance": The Canons of Criticism Critical Puffery and Scrapping: 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' Pedasculus: Distress upon Distress Critical Fishiness: Smart, Rolt, and The Universal Visitor Garrick's Witches' Brew: "A Recipe for a Modern Critic" Critical Rodents and The Universal Visitor Oliver Goldsmith's Specious Idlers: Polite Learning in Europe Goldsmith's Critical Spiders and Blockheads: The Critical Review Johnson's Critical Minim: The Idler Alexander Mackenzie's The Hungry Mob of Scriblers and Etchers Sterne's Bobs and Trinkets of Criticism: Tristram Shandy The Reviewers' 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 Gibbon'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 Function of Criticism Laughing When Reason Fails Of Dogs and Monkeys: an Afterword Bibliography Index
Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I: Laughing with Reason: Seriousness and Un-seriousness in English Critical HistoryClassical Origins and Sources Writing the Laughing History of Criticism Self-Ridicule Overdoing It A Note on 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 Wycherley's Anti-Critical Rampagings Addison and the Art of Critical Tittling and Tattling How Not to Write Literary Criticism: the Cautions of Pope's Essay Tyrants in Wit and Pretenders to 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 Criticism: The Dunciad Henry Fielding's Guesswork: The Champion Sarah Fielding on Critical Cackling and Gobbling: David Simple Henry Fielding's Critical Reptiles and Slanderers: Tom Jones Thomas Edwards' "Airy Petulance": The Canons of Criticism Critical Puffery and Scrapping: 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' Pedasculus: Distress upon Distress Critical Fishiness: Smart, Rolt, and The Universal Visitor Garrick's Witches' Brew: "A Recipe for a Modern Critic" Critical Rodents and The Universal Visitor Oliver Goldsmith's Specious Idlers: Polite Learning in Europe Goldsmith's Critical Spiders and Blockheads: The Critical Review Johnson's Critical Minim: The Idler Alexander Mackenzie's The Hungry Mob of Scriblers and Etchers Sterne's Bobs and Trinkets of Criticism: Tristram Shandy The Reviewers' 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 Gibbon'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 Function of Criticism Laughing When Reason Fails Of Dogs and Monkeys: an Afterword Bibliography Index
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