The British Critical Tradition: A Re-evaluation

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Criticism in Crisis....Pages 1-7
Carlyle’s Metaphorical Dynamic of History: or How to Trace a Grand Narrative in the French Revolution....Pages 8-28
Matthew Arnold: The Discourse of Criticism....Pages 29-37
Samuel Butler: The First Post-Structuralist?....Pages 38-48
Oscar Wilde and Reader-Response Criticism....Pages 49-66
Is There a Method in his Theory? A. C. Bradley and Contemporary Criticism....Pages 67-79
E. M. Forster: The Isolation of the Reader....Pages 80-91
The Moth and the Moth-Hunter: The Literary Criticism of Virginia Woolf....Pages 92-107
D. H. Lawrence: Cliques and Consciousness....Pages 108-121
I. A. Richards and the Problem of Method....Pages 122-139
George Orwell: The Practical Critic....Pages 140-152
Reason, Rhetoric, Theory: Empson and de Man....Pages 153-169
About Being and Necessity: The Work of Christopher Caudwell....Pages 170-180
W. H. Auden as Critic....Pages 181-187
‘I thought I had provided something better’ — F. R. Leavis, Literary Criticism and Anti-Philosophy....Pages 188-212
Raymond Williams and Post-Modernism....Pages 213-229
Frank Kermode: History and Synchronicity....Pages 230-237
Vanishing Point: On the Edge of Critical Breakdown....Pages 238-243
Back Matter....Pages 244-257