TY  - BOOK
AU  - Russell,William M.
AU  - Recorded Books,Inc
TI  - Inventing the critic in renaissance EnglandWilliam M. Russell
SN  - 9781644531921
AV  - PN99 .I584 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - [S.l.
PB  - University of Delaware Press
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - England
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - The turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and poetics, writers such as Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, and Ben Jonson laid the foundations of critical discourse in English, and the English word "critic" began, for the first time, to suggest expertise in literary judgment. Yet the conspicuously ambivalent attitude of these critics toward criticism'and the persistent fear that they would be misunderstood, marginalized, scapegoated, or otherwise "branded with the dignity of a critic"'suggests that the position of the critic in this period was uncertain. In Inventing the Critic in Renaissance England, William Russell reveals that the critics of the English Renaissance did not passively absorb their practice from Continental and classical sources but actively invented it in response to a confluence of social and intellectual factors
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