Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-224) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : literary criticism and seventeenth-century literary culture -- Critical commonplaces : manuscript production and sociable critical judgment -- Katherine Philips and her circle : coterie critics -- Front matters : Margaret Cavendish's prefaces and the margins of sociable criticism -- Impudence and polite conversation : rules of coterie discussion and Dyden's Essay of dramatick poesie -- Performing criticism : Villiers's The rehearsal and the discourse of friendship -- Friends in Christ and denizens of the stage : religious reform's challenge to coterie criticism -- Speaking for the magistrate : John Dennis and critical regulation -- Sociable criticism in print : Addison's Spectator and the personality of the critic.
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