Ridiculous Critics: Augustan Mockery Of Critical Judgment

SpanRidiculous 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. /span

• | Author: Philip Smallwood|Min Wild, Philip Smallwood
• | Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 07, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1611486165
• | ISBN-13: 9781611486162