Philip Smallwood

Johnson's Critical Presence (eBook, ePUB)

Image, History, Judgment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Johnson's Critical Presence demonstrates how Johnson's criticism has for long been divided from the issues of modern criticism by historical narratives that have marked the progress of criticism from 'classic to romantic'. The image of Johnson constructed by his immediate antagonists has been preserved by the routines of historical representation, and mediated to the present day, most recently, by the characterizations of 'radical theory'. By an in-depth analysis of major works by Johnson, Smallwood argues that the historicization of eighteenth-century criticism can be more fruitfully understood in the light of the 'dialogic' and 'translational' historiography of such thinkers as Collingwood and Ricoeur, and that the contexts of Johnson's criticism must include the poetry he read as well as the theories he espoused. In this way the book reinstates Johnson's 'presence' as critic while displacing the 'history of ideas' as the leading paradigm for conceptualizing the history of criticism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351924917
• Artikelnr.: 48803582

Autorenporträt

Philip Smallwood is Professor of English at the University of Central England and has written widely on Samuel Johnson and on the theory, practice and history of literary criticism. His books include Modern Critics in Practice (1990), Johnson Re-Visioned, an edited collection of new essays on Johnson (2001), and Reconstructing Criticism: Pope's 'Essay on Criticism' and the Logic of Definition (2003). He is the editor of Critical Pasts, a collection of essays on approaches to critical history, and co-editor of the unpublished manuscripts on critical and aesthetic themes of the British philosopher R.G. Collingwood.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Samuel Johnson, critical presence and the theory of the history of criticism
'Only designing to live': personal history and the non-reductive context of Johnsonian criticism
Historicization and the judgment of Shakespeare
Historicization and literary pleasure: Johnson reads Cowley
Voice and image: critical comedy, the Johnsonian monster, and the construction of judgment
From image to history: Johnson's criticism and the genealogy of Romanticism
Conclusion: Johnson's transfusion of the critical past and the making of the literary canon
Bibliography
Index.