Early literary criticism was undisciplined. Unlike the staid essays
and monographs of later academic scholarship, English criticism
first appeared in the contentious world of the London theater:
dramatists and other poets argued about their craft in contending
prefaces and dedications, and their disputes spilled into the
public sphere in pamphlet wars, mock epics, lampoons, and even
novels. Across these forms, criticism was personal, political, and
unconcerned with analysis for its own sake. Yet this unruly
discourse laid the groundwork both for modern literary criticism
and for the discipline of literary studies. The Invention of
English Criticism explores the earliest uses of criticism and the
attempts by some to convert a field of literary debate into an
archive of useful knowledge. Criticism's undisciplined past thus
illuminates its contested, ambivalent, and never fully disciplined
present.
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