Genre and ethics : the education of an eighteenth-century critic
"This book combines a literary critical version of genre with a pedagogical conception of ethics. It is comprised of eight chapters covering literature from the Renaissance to the present with an emphasis on the Restoration and the eighteenth century."
Print Book, English, 2002
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, 2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780874137675, 0874137675
47182294
An autobiographical introduction: why genre and ethics?
How genre criticism leads to ethics
Textual ideology in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Critical ideology in The Beaux' and Belle's stratagem
Critical judgment in MacFlecknoe
Ethical agency in "The double mistress"
History, genre, and ethics in The life of Richard Savage
Genre and teleology: the faith of criticism
Literary history: the pastoral elegy from "Lycidas" to the present
Pedagogical postscript