Critics, Values, and Restoration ComedySouthern Illinois University Press, 1982 - 177 sivua Granting that literature delights, Harwood addresses the moral questions that have been hotly debated by critics for the 300 years since Restoration comedy flourished: “In what way does literature teach? How do beliefs about its effects on audiences shape critics’ responses to and judgment of literature?”
Harwood begins with a survey of the “major rhetorical strategies by which many critics transform themselves, at least momentarily and perhaps unconsciously, into moralists when they deal with restoration comedy.”
Then he places various moral responses in a broader critical context by analyzing ways in which critics have traditionally handled aesthetic problems, which inevitably entail an ethical assessment of literature.
Third, he analyzes the moral dimensions of four controversial Restoration comedies: William Wycherley’s Country Wife; Edward Ravenscroft’s London Cuckolds; Thomas Otway’s Souldiers Fortune; and Thomas Shadwell’s Squire of Alsatia. |
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... greatest of these virtues is generosity , which epitomizes the ethos of Restoration comedy . " By rewarding generous actions , the comedies tell us what we ought to be . . . . By deflating moralistic , religious , and roman- tic ...
... greatest of the eighteenth - century critics , articulates for his century the key elements of the moralisé tradi- tion . Following the earlier critics , he insists in his Preface to Shake- speare that literature can shape our behavior ...
... greatest source of moral value but , paradoxically , the occasion for his most grievous flaw . His genius enables him to touch our hearts ; his judgment does not always allow him to move them properly . This is not as paradoxical as it ...
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DeepBreathing Sex and Critical Practice | 77 |
Notes | 145 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
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