The rhetoric of redemption
Subtitle: the literary criticism of G.K. Chesterton
By: Alan R. Blackstock
Series: Studies in literary criticism and theory ;vv. 23
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433119804; 9781453908891
Subjects: Criticism; Literature; Theory; English literature; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Knowledge; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "Let us begin with truisms": criticism and the common man; title: "Singing with an object": rhetoric, audience, and Chesterton; title: "I could not help being a controversialist": Chesterton and his readers; title: "The real gospel of Dickens": Chesterton and the audience for criticism; title: "A tongue understanded of the people": Chesterton on Newman, Carlyle, and Ruskin; title: "The very temper of the age": the romantic revolt from Victorian rationalism; title: "With considerable art": Chesterton on Blake, Browning, and Shaw; title: "The fin de siecle atmosphere": aestheticism vs. ethical criticism at the turns of the centuries; title: "Rational self-completion": Chesterton, the virtues, and ethical criticism; title: Afterword: liberal humanism and ethical criticism in today's academy.