A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950: Volume 1, The Later Eighteenth CenturyVol. 2 is missing from the series. |
Contents
Preface Introduction | 1 |
Neoclassicism and the New Trends of the Time | 12 |
Voltaire | 31 |
Diderot | 46 |
The Other French Critics | 62 |
Dr Johnson | 79 |
The Minor English and Scottish Critics | 105 |
Italian Criticism | 133 |
Storm and Stress and Herder | 176 |
Goethe | 201 |
Kant and Schiller | 227 |
Bibliographies and Notes | 257 |
List of Abbreviations and Short Titles | 258 |
Chronological Table of Works | 341 |
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