The Emergence of Dramatic Criticism in England: From Jonson to Pope

by P. Cannan

Overview

Focusing on dramatic criticism, this book explores the self authorizing strategies of writers such as Jonson, Dryden, Aphra Behn, Thomas Rymer, Jeremy Collier and Joseph Addison. Cannan focuses on how they established themselves as critics, and paved the way for the birth of dramatic criticism in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403971272
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	06/14/2006
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

PAUL D. CANNAN is Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Author as Critic The 'Laughing Critick' The Parson Turn'd Critick 'Criticks by Profession' The Journalistic Critic from The Gentleman's Journal to The Spectator