The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism

by Edited by M. A. R. Habib

• ISBN13: 9780521300117
• ISBN10: 0521300118
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-03-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In the nineteenth century, literary criticism first developed into an autonomous, professional discipline in the universities. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative study of the vast field of literary criticism between 1830 and 1914. In over thirty essays written from a broad range of perspectives, international scholars examine the growth of literary criticism as an institution, the major critical developments in diverse national traditions and in different genres, as well as the major movements of realism, naturalism, symbolism and decadence. The History offers a detailed focus on some of the era's great critical figures such as Sainte-Beuve, Hippolyte Taine and Matthew Arnold; and it includes essays devoted to the connections of literary criticism with other disciplines in science, the arts and Biblical studies. The publication of this volume marks the completion of the monumental Cambridge History of Literary Criticism from antiquity to the present day.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Literary Criticism as an Institution

Contexts and conditions of literary criticism: 1830-1914

Literary studies and the academy

Women and literary criticism Kimberly

National Developments in Literary Criticism

Literature and nationalism

Germany: from Restoration to consolidation: classical and Romantic legacies

France: the continuing debate over Classicism

England: Romantic legacies

England: literature and culture

Literary nationalism and US Romantic aesthetics

Russia: literature and society

Critical Movements and Patterns of Influence

Literary autonomy: the growth of a modern concept

Hegel's aesthetics and their influence

Marx, Engels and early Marxist criticism

Later Nineteenth-Century Developments: Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism and Decadence

Realism, naturalism and symbolism in France

Symbolism and realism in Germany

American literary realism

Decadence and fin de siècle

The avant-garde in early twentieth-century Europe

Some Major Critics of the Period: 20. Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-69)

Hippolyte Taine (1828-93)

Francesco De Sanctis (1817-83)

Matthew Arnold (1822-88)

Henry James (1843-1916)

George Brandes (1842-1927)

Genre Criticism

Theories of genre

Theories of the novel

Theories of poetry

Theories of drama

Literature and Other Disciplines

Literary criticism and models of science

Literature and the arts

Biblical scholarship and literary criticism

Bibliography

Index

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