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Smallwood | Johnson's Critical Presence | Buch | 978-0-7546-3357-0 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Reihe: Studies in Early Modern English Literature

Smallwood

Johnson's Critical Presence

Image, History, Judgment
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7546-3357-0
Verlag: Routledge

Image, History, Judgment

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Reihe: Studies in Early Modern English Literature

ISBN: 978-0-7546-3357-0
Verlag: Routledge


Samuel Johnson remains one of the most frequently discussed and cited of the eighteenth-century critics; but historians of criticism have invariably interpreted his work within conventions that have allowed for little evaluative commerce between the needs of the critical present and the voices of the critical past. Smallwood's argument is that Johnson's alienation from the modern critical scene stems in part from historians' tendency to tell the story of criticism as a narrative of improvement. The image of Johnson conceived by his antagonists in the eighteenth century has been perpetuated by romanticism, by nineteenth-century representational routines and mediated to the present day, most recently, by varieties of 'radical theory'. In Johnson's Critical Presence Smallwood offers a new account of Johnson's major critical writings conceived according to a different kind of historical potential. He suggests that the historicization of eighteenth-century criticism can best be understood in the light of the 'dialogic' and 'translational' historiographies of Collingwood, Gadamer and Ricoeur, and that the explanatory contexts of Johnson's criticism must include poetry in addition to theory; in this his study seeks to displace both the history of ideas as the leading paradigm for the history of criticism and to question the developmental narrative on which it relies. By in-depth analysis of Johnson's response to Shakespeare's plays and to the poetry of Abraham Cowley, Smallwood constructs a non-reductive context of emotional experience for Johnson's criticism. This embraces the dynamic satirical caricatures by James Gillray of Johnson as critic, the irony of Johnson's critical affinities with the major romantics, and is set against twentieth-century responses to the literary 'canon'. Smallwood argues that not only Johnson's emotional sensitivities, but also the ironic voices within the critical text itself, must be fully appreciated before Johnson's current relevance, or even his historical value, can be grasped.

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Contents: Preface; Samuel Johnson, critical presence and the theory of the history of criticism; 'Only designing to live': personal history and the non-reductive context of Johnsonian criticism; Historicization and the judgment of Shakespeare; Historicization and literary pleasure: Johnson reads Cowley; Voice and image: critical comedy, the Johnsonian monster, and the construction of judgment; From image to history: Johnson's criticism and the genealogy of Romanticism; Conclusion: Johnson's transfusion of the critical past and the making of the literary canon; Bibliography; Index.


Philip Smallwood is Professor of English at the University of Central England and has written widely on Samuel Johnson and on the theory, practice and history of literary criticism. His books include Modern Critics in Practice (1990), Johnson Re-Visioned, an edited collection of new essays on Johnson (2001), and Reconstructing Criticism: Pope's 'Essay on Criticism' and the Logic of Definition (2003). He is the editor of Critical Pasts, a collection of essays on approaches to critical history, and co-editor of the unpublished manuscripts on critical and aesthetic themes of the British philosopher R.G. Collingwood.



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