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Conditions for Criticism: Authority, Knowledge, and Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century: Authority, Knowledge and Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century
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Conditions for Criticism studies changes in the practice of literary criticism in the nineteenth century and locates those changes within wider movements in British intellectual culture. The growth of knowledge and its subsequent institutionalization in universities produced new forms of intellectual authority. This book examines these processes in a wide variety of disciplines, including economics, historiography, sociology, psychology, and philosophical aesthetics, and explores their impact upon literary criticism. Its thesis is that the work of late nineteenth-century writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde can be best understood in terms of their engagement with, and reaction to, these general intellectual changes, a view which in its turn reveals the seriousness of their work.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2064503 in Books
- Published on: 1991-04-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 168 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Should stimulate cultural historians to explore further implications of the crisis that afflicted the Victorians and, Small suggests, ourselves as well."--Choice
"A book students of late Victorian literature will be glad to have."--English Literature in Transition
