Critical Pasts.

Critical Pasts

Philip Smallwood

Bucknell University Press

Associated University Presses, dist.

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Deftly compiled and expertly edited by Philip Smallwood (Professor of English at the University of Central England in Burmingham), Critical Pasts: Writing Criticism, Writing History offers the reader an understanding and analysis of modern thought and scholarship on the theory, practice, and cultural value of historical literary criticism. Involving the work of Stephen Penn, Paul Trolander, Zeynep Tenger, Tom Mason, April London, Gavin Budge, Adam Rounce, Robert Eaglestone, Philip Smallwood, and Gary Day, Critical Pasts is an accessible conceptual grasp of literary etiquette, relationship, and historical variations of past and present literary criticism. An invaluable addition to academic library collections, Critical Pasts is very highly recommended and instructive reading, especially for students and scholars of literature--especially within the context of historical authorship and criticism.