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 \nThe Cambridge History ofLiterary Criticism  \nVOLUME 4The Eighteenth Century  \nThe Cambridge History ofLiterary Criticism  \nGENERAL EDITORSProfessor H.B.NisbetUniversity of CambridgeProfessor Claude RawsonYale University  \nThe Cambridge History of Literary Criticism will provide a com-prehensive historical account of Western literary criticism from class-ical antiquity to the present day,dealing with both literary theoryand critical practice.The History is intended as an authoritativework of reference and exposition,but more than a mere chronicleof facts.While remaining broadly non-partisan it will,where ap-propriate,address controversial issues of current critical debatewithout evasion or false pretences of neutrality.Each volume is aself-contained unit designed to be used independently as well as inconjunction with the others in the series.Substantial bibliographicalmaterial in each volume will provide the foundation for furtherstudy of the subjects in question.  \nVOLUMES PUBLISHED  \nVolume I:Classical Criticism,edited by George A.KennedyVolume 2:The Middle Ages,edited by Alastair Minnis and lan JohnsonVolume 3:The Renaissance,edited by Glyn Norton  \nVolume 4:The Eighteenth Century,edited by H.B.Nisbet and Claude RawsonVolume s:Romanticism,edited by Marshall Brown  \nVolume 7:Modernism and the New Criticism,edited by A.Walton Litz,Louis Menand,and Lawrence Rainey  \nVolume 8:From Formalism to Poststructuralism,edited by Raman SeldenVolume 9:Twentieth-Century Historical,Philosophical and PsychologicalPerspectives,edited by Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris  \nThe Cambridge History ofLiterary Criticism  \nVOLUME 4The Eighteenth Century  \nEdited by  \nH.B.NISBET ANDCLAUDE RAWSON  \nCAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITY PRESS  \nCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nCambridge,New York,Melbourne,Madrid,Cape Town,Singapore,São PauloCambridge University PressThe Edinburgh Building,Cambridge CB22RU,UK  \nPublished in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press,New York  \nwww.cambridge.orgInformation on this title:www.cambridge.org/978052I300094  \n◎ Cambridge University Press 2o05  \nThis book is in copyright.Subject to statutory exceptionand to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements,no reproduction of any part may take place withoutthe written permission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published I997Repinted 2003First paperback edition 2005  \nPrinted in the United Kingdom at the University Press,Cambridge  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN-I3978-0-52I-300094-hardback  \nISBN-IO o-52I-300096-hardback  \nISBN-I3978-0-52I-3I7207-paperback  \nISBN-IO o-52I-3I7207-paperback  \nCambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy ofURLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book,and does notguarantee that any content on such websites is,or will remain,accurate or appropriate.  \nContents  \nNotes on contributors viiiEditors'preface xiv  \nINTRODUCTION:CRITICISM AND TRADITION  \nI The institution of criticism in the eighteenth century3DoUGLAS LANE PATEY  \n2 Ancients and Moderns32DoUGLAS LANE PATEY  \nGENRES  \n3 Poetry,I660-I74075JAMES SAMBROOK  \n4 Poetry,after I740II7WILLIAM KEACH  \n5 Drama,I660-I740I67MAXIMILLIAN E.NovAK  \n6 Drama,after I740I84JoHN OsBORNE  \n7 Prose fiction:France2IOENGLISH SHOWALTER  \n8 Prose fiction:Great Britain238MICHAEL McKEON  \n9 Prose fiction:Germany and the Netherlands264  \nC.W.SCHONEVELD  \nIo Historiography282MICHEL BARIDON  \nII Biography and autobiography302FELICITY A.NuSSBAUM  \nI2 Criticism and the rise of periodical literature316JAMES BASKER  \nLANGUAGE AND STYLE  \nI3 Theories of language335NICHOLAS HUDSON  \nI4 The contributions of rhetoric to literary criticism349GEORGE A.KENNEDY  \nI5 Theories of style365PAT RoGERS  \n16 Generality and particularity38ILEO DAMROSCH  \n17 The 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