The British Critical Tradition: A Re-Evaluation

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Criticism in Crisis; G.Day - Carlyle's Metaphorical Dynamic of History: or How to Trace A Grand Narrative in the French Revolution; N.Parker - Matthew Arnold: The Discourse of Criticism; G.Holderness - Samuel Butler: The First Post- Structuralist?; R.Stewart - Oscar Wilde and Reader Response Criticism; B.Moore-Gilbert - Is There a Method in His Theory? A.C.Bradley and Contemporary Criticism; A.Page - E.M.Forster: The Isolation of The Reader; A.Smith - The Moth and the Moth Hunter: The Literary Criticism of Virginia Woolf; L.Kranzler - D.H.Lawrence: Cliques and Consciousness; J.Reilly - I.A.Richards and the Problem of Method; B.Cullen - George Orwell: The Practical Critic; A.Crabbe - Reason, Rhetoric, Theory: Empson and de Man; C.Norris - About Being a Necessity: The Work of Christopher Cauldwell; M.Hayes - W.H.Auden as Critic; H.Blakemore - 'I thought I had provided Something better' F.R.Leavis: Literary Criticism and Anti Philosophy; B.Cullen - Raymond Williams and Post Modernism; T.Pinkney - Frank Kermode: History and Synchronicity; B.Helm - Vanishing Point: On The Edge of Critical Breakdown; C.Bloom - Index