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Studies in Criticism and Aesthetics, 1660-1800 was first published
in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make
long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published
unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
In this volume nineteen contributors, in as many essays, discuss
various aspects of critical and aesthetic development in the late
seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, from the time of Dryden
to Wordsworth. This was a period in which traditional literary
criticism progressed in important new directions and which saw the
rise of aesthetic theory. The book is published in honor of Samuel
Holt Monk, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, and
distinguished American scholar in the field of eighteenth century
English literature, literary criticism, and aesthetics. The essays,
all of which were written for this volume, analyze the literary
theories and assumptions of some of the most important artists and
critics of the time, as well as the aesthetic theories which
influenced painting and literature. During the period under
discussion, the progress of social and philosophical thought
stimulated an intensive examination of the nature and function of
art. Although neoclassical ideals dominated Restoration criticism
and continued to influence Pope and later critics like Johnson and
Reynolds, other tendencies were gaining ground, and throughout the
eighteenth century the effort to reconcile a growing interest in
"the pleasing emotions" with the tenets of classicism created
criticism and aesthetic theory of extraordinary complexity. These
essays illuminate that complexity without oversimplifying it. The
book is illustrated with reproductions of works of art of the
period. In addition to the essays, there is a bibliography of
Professor Monk's writings.
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