Criticism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and its Academies

Criticism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and its Academies

by ThomasDocherty (Author)

Synopsis

This work traces the conditions under which criticism emerged as a socio-cultural practice within the institutionalized forms of European modernity and democracy. It argues that criticism was born out of anxieties about national supremacy in the late-17th century.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Edition: 1st
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 01 Apr 1999

ISBN 10: 0198185014
ISBN 13: 9780198185017