CRITICISM

Baldick, Chris. “Matthew Arnold’s Innocent Language.” In The Social Mission of English Criticism 1848-1932, pp. 18-58. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.

Discusses Arnold as an innovative critic who was the first to explore the social function of both literature and literary criticism.

Brown, Monika. “‘Describing Something Else’: Analogies to Visual Arts in Victorian Criticism of Realist Fiction.” Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts 2 (1990): 331-55.

Discusses the the role the visual arts played in contemporary criticism of Victorian realist fiction.

Courtemanche, Eleanor. “Bread, Roses, and Reason; or, Can Victorian Cultural Criticism Reform Political Economy?” Nineteenth Century Studies 16 (2002): 115-25.

Considers the relationship of Victorian cultural criticism to aesthetic literary theory.

Decker, Clarence R. “The Aesthetic Revolt against Naturalism in Victorian Criticism.” PMLA 53, no. 3 (September 1938): 844-56.

Addresses the development of the Aesthetic movement and its relationship to Naturalism.

Eliot, T. S. “The Perfect Critic.” In The Sacred Wood, pp. 1-16. London: Methuen, 1920.

Assesses various nineteenth-century critics and a discusses what constitutes the “perfect” critic.

Farrell, John P. “Homeward Bound: Arnold's Late Criticism.” Victorian Studies 17 (1973): 187-206.

Analyzes Arnold’s later criticism.

Harris, Wendell. “The Continuously Creative Function of Arnoldian Criticism.” Victorian Poetry 26, nos. 1-2 (spring-summer 1988): 117-33.

Discusses Arnold’s “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” and its relationship to literary studies.

Johnson, R. V. “Literary Criticism.” In Walter Pater: A Study of his Critical Outlook and Achievement, pp. 34-47. Parkville, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1961.

Examines Pater’s views on literary criticism, particularly his evaluations of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shakespeare.

Korsten, F. J. M. “The ‘English Men of Letters’ Series: A Monument of Late-Victorian Literary Criticism.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 73, no. 6 (December 1992): 503-16.

Considers the “English Men of Letters” series and its founder, John Morley, and its contribution to Victorian literary criticism.

Morgan, Thaïs E. “Reimagining Masculinity in Victorian Criticism: Swinburne and Pater.” Victorian Studies: A Journal of the Humanities, Arts and Sciences 36, no. 3 (spring 1993): 315-32.

Explores the concept of masculinity, while comparing Algernon Charles Swinburne to Walter Pater.

Peters, Robert L. The Crowns of Apollo: Swinburne's Principles of Literature and Art: A Study in Victorian Criticism and Aesthetics. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1965.

Evaluates Swinburne’s approach to literature and art.

Starzyk, Lawrence J. “‘The Coronation of the Whirlwind’: The Victorian Poetics of Indeterminacy.” Victorian Newsletter 77 (spring 1990): 27-35.

Compares classical aesthetics to Romanticism and considers its relationship to indeterminacy.

Tillotson, Geoffrey. Criticism and the Nineteenth Century. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1967, 283 p.

Discusses the important theories and methods of the nineteenth century, with emphasis on the critical perspectives of Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, and John Henry Newman.

Warren, Alba H., Jr. “The Substance of English Poetic Theory, 1825-1865.” In English Poetic Theory, 1825-1865, pp. 208-28. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1950.

Provides a discussion of the principle critical theories of the early Victorian era.