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050	0	0	_aPR73 _b.R535 2014
049			_aMAIN
245	1	0	_aRidiculous critics : _bAugustan mockery of critical judgment / _cedited by Philip Smallwood and Min Wild.
260			_aLewisburg : _bBucknell University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (xix, 245 pages)
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505	0	0	_aPart I: Laughing with reason: Seriousness and un-seriousness in English critical history -- _tClassical origins and sources -- _tWriting the laughing history of criticism -- _tSelf-ridicule -- _tOverdoing it -- _tTexts and images -- _tPart II: The language and appearance of ridicule: A selection -- _t"Critiques, do your worst": Buckingham's Rehearsal -- _tLord Rochester's disdain: "An allusion to Horace" -- _tJonathan Swift and my good Lords the critics: A tale of a Tub -- _tSwift's goddess criticism: The Battle of the Books -- _tWilliam Whycherley's anti-critical rampagings -- _tAddison and the art of the critical tittling and tattling -- _tHow not to write literary criticism: The cautions of Pope's Essay -- _tTyrants in with and pretenders in criticism: The Guardian -- _tThe critical insect of Thomas Parnell: "The Bookworm: -- _tA life in criticism: Parnell's Remarks on Zoilus -- _tSteele and the Big Beast of criticism: The Theatre -- _tDamning with faint praise: Pope's Epistle to Arbuthnot -- _tPope's big sleep of criticsm: The Dunciad -- _tHenry Fielding's guesswork: The Champion -- _tSarah Fielding on critical cackling and gobblings: David Simple -- _tHenry's Fielding's critical reptiles and slanderers: Tom Jones -- _tThomas Edwards's "Airy Petulance": The Cannons of Criticism -- _tCritical Puffery and scapping: Smollett's Peregrine Pickle -- _tSmart's practical critic: The Student -- _tSmart's semicolonic ramblings: The Midwife (I) -- _tMrs. Midnight's Art of close reading: The Midwife (II) -- _tSmart's critical dogs and spiders: The Midwife (III) -- _tMicroscopic and telescopic critics: Johnson's Rambler -- _tGeorge Stevens's pedasculus: Distress upon Distress -- _tCritical fishineess: Smart, Rolt, and The Universal Visiter -- _tGarrick's Witches' brew: "A recipe for a modern critic" -- _tCritical rodents and The Universal Visiter -- _tOliver Goldsmith's specious Idlers: Polite learning in Europe -- _tJohnson's critical minim: The Idler -- _tGoldsmith's ciritical spiders and blockheads: The Critical Review -- _tAlexander Mackenzie's The Hungry Mob of Scriblers and Etchers -- _tSterne's Bobs and Trinkets of criticism: Tristram Shandy -- _tThe Review's Cave -- _tEvan Lloyd and the critic's catacomb of words: The Powers of the Pen -- _tA connoisseur admiring a dark night piece -- _tAn Old Macaroni Critic at a New Play -- _tGibbson's critical overcast: The Decline and Fall -- _tGillray's critical Owl -- _tDr. Pomposo -- _tThe Critics: A Poem -- _tThe critic at home -- _tA Connoisseur in Brokers Alley -- _tPart III: Legacies of Ridicule: The Close of Critical History -- _tUncertainties yet more uncertain -- _tBeing serious with theory -- _tComedy and contextualization -- _tStasis and change -- _tDignity, indignity, and the funciton of criticism -- _tLaughing when reason fails -- _tOf Dogs and monkeys: An afterword.
520	0		_aRidiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critic's mixed and complex role. The collection assembles critical texts and satirical images chronologically to suggest a vision of the history of eighteenth-century literary criticism. Including comic, vicious, heartfelt and absurd passages from critics, poets, novelists and literary commentators celebrated and obscure, the writings range through poetry, fiction, drama, and periodical writing. The anthology also includes two original essays discussing and illustrating the irrepressible spirit of critical ridicule in the period, and commending its value and effect. The first offers an evaluation of the merciless and sometimes shockingly venomous satirical attacks on critical habits and personalities of the eighteenth century. The editors argue that such attacks are reflexive, in the sense that criticism becomes increasingly supple and able to observe and examine its own irresponsible ingenuities from within. The volume's concluding essay supplies an analysis of modern modes of criticism and critical history, and suggests applications across time. We propose that humor's vital force was once an important part of living criticism. The eighteenth-century mockery of critics casts light on a neglected common thread in the history of criticism and its recent manifestations; it prompts questions about the relative absence of comedy from the stories we presently tell about critics dead or alive. The passages invite laughter, both with the critics and at their expense, and suggest the place that ridicule might have had since the eighteenth century in the making of judgments, and in the pricking of critical pretension. For this reason, they indicate the role that laughter may still have in criticism today and provide an encouraging precedent for its future.--Provided by publisher.
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650		0	_aCriticism _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aEnglish literature _xHistory and criticism _xTheory, etc.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aSmallwood, Philip, _e5
700	1		_aWild, Min, _e5
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=849843&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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