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Conditions for Criticism : Authority, Knowledge, and Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century, Hardback Book

Conditions for Criticism : Authority, Knowledge, and Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century Hardback

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Conditions for Criticism studies changes in the practice of literary criticism in the nineteenth century and locates those changes within wider movements in British intellectual culture.

The growth of knowledge and its subsequent institutionalization in universities produced new forms of intellectual authority.

This book examines these processes in a wide variety of disciplines, including economics, historiography, sociology, psychology, and philosophical aesthetics, and explores their impact upon literary criticism.

Its thesis is that the work of late nineteenth-century writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde can be best understood in terms of their engagement with, and reaction to, these general intellectual changes, a view which in its turn reveals the seriousness of their work.

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