This study tries, through a systematic and historical analysis of
the concept of critical authority, to write a history of literary
criticism from the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th century
that not only takes the discursive construction of its
(self)representation into account, but also the social and economic
conditions of its practice. It tries to consider the whole of the
critical discourse on literature and criticism in the time period
covered. Thus, it is distinctive through its methodology (there is
no systematic account of the historical development of critical
authority and no discussion of the institutionalization of
criticism of such a scope), its material of analysis (most of the
many hundred texts self-reflexively commenting on criticism that
are discussed here have been so far virtually ignored) and through
its results, a complex history of criticism in the 18th century
that is neither reductive nor the accumulation of isolated aspects
or author figures, but that probes into the very nature of the
activity of criticism. The aim of this study is both to provide a
thorough historical understanding of the emergence of criticism and
as a consequence an understanding of the inner workings and power
relations that structure criticism to this day.
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