Sociable criticism in England, 1625-1725 / Paul Trolander and Zeynep Tenger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trolander, Paul, 1956-

Contributor:

Tenger, Zeynep, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--Social aspects--England--History--17th century.

Criticism.

Criticism--Social aspects--England--History--18th century.

Transmission of texts--England--History--17th century.

Transmission of texts.

Transmission of texts--England--History--18th century.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

History.

Criticism--Social aspects.

England.

Literature and society--England--History--18th century.

England--Intellectual life--17th century.

Intellectual life.

England--Intellectual life--18th century.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction : literary criticism and seventeenth-century literary culture

Critical commonplaces : manuscript production and sociable critical judgment

Katherine Philips and her circle : coterie critics

Front matters : Margaret Cavendish's prefaces and the margins of sociable criticism

Impudence and polite conversation : rules of coterie discussion and Dyden's Essay of dramatick poesie

Performing criticism : Villiers's The rehearsal and the discourse of friendship

Friends in Christ and denizens of the stage : religious reform's challenge to coterie criticism

Speaking for the magistrate : John Dennis and critical regulation

Sociable criticism in print : Addison's Spectator and the personality of the critic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index.

ISBN:

0874139694

9780874139693

OCLC:

71286605