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Ridiculous Critics - Augustan Mockery of Critical Judgment (Paperback)
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Ridiculous Critics - Augustan Mockery of Critical Judgment (Paperback)
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Ridiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings
on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critic's mixed and
complex role. The collection assembles critical texts and satirical
images chronologically to suggest a vision of the history of
eighteenth-century literary criticism. Including comic, vicious,
heartfelt and absurd passages from critics, poets, novelists and
literary commentators celebrated and obscure, the writings range
through poetry, fiction, drama, and periodical writing. The
anthology also includes two original essays discussing and
illustrating the irrepressible spirit of critical ridicule in the
period, and commending its value and effect. The first offers an
evaluation of the merciless and sometimes shockingly venomous
satirical attacks on critical habits and personalities of the
eighteenth century. The editors argue that such attacks are
reflexive, in the sense that criticism becomes increasingly supple
and able to observe and examine its own irresponsible ingenuities
from within. The volume's concluding essay supplies an analysis of
modern modes of criticism and critical history, and suggests
applications across time. We propose that humor's vital force was
once an important part of living criticism. The eighteenth-century
mockery of critics casts light on a neglected common thread in the
history of criticism and its recent manifestations; it prompts
questions about the relative absence of comedy from the stories we
presently tell about critics dead or alive. The passages invite
laughter, both with the critics and at their expense, and suggest
the place that ridicule might have had since the eighteenth century
in the making of judgments, and in the pricking of critical
pretension. For this reason, they indicate the role that laughter
may still have in criticism today and provide an encouraging
precedent for its future.
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