Conditions for criticism : authority, knowledge, and literature in the late nineteenth century / Ian Small.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Small, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Criticism.

Great Britain.

History.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

x, 153 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Summary:

This book studies changes in the practice of literary criticism in nineteenth-century Britain and locates those changes within wider movements in intellectual culture. The growth of knowledge and its subsequent institutionalization in universities produced new forms of intellectual authority. Small examines these processes in a wide variety of disciplines, including economics, historiography, sociology, psychology, and philosophical aesthetics, and explores their impact upon literary criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [142]-150) and index.

ISBN:

0198122411

OCLC:

22420742