Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-129) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- "Let us begin with truisms": criticism and the common man -- "Singing with an object": rhetoric, audience, and Chesterton -- "I could not help being a controversialist": Chesterton and his readers -- "The real gospel of Dickens": Chesterton and the audience for criticism -- "A tongue understanded of the people": Chesterton on Newman, Carlyle, and Ruskin -- "The very temper of the age": the romantic revolt from Victorian rationalism -- "With considerable art": Chesterton on Blake, Browning, and Shaw -- "The fin de siecle atmosphere": aestheticism vs. ethical criticism at the turns of the centuries -- "Rational self-completion": Chesterton, the virtues, and ethical criticism -- Afterword: liberal humanism and ethical criticism in today's academy.
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