Literary Critic History

• Studied and became professor at Oxford
• Career as a professor and essayist.
• Friend of unconventional victorians, Wilde, Ruskin.
• Published the History of Renaissance, in 1873, explaining how Italian Renaissance used to mix and unite Christianity and Paganism
• Fired because of his revolutionary ideals, moved to London with sister Clara

• Readmitted to Oxford

• More concerned in FORMAL aspect of art, and on aestheticism

• Essay, prose

FG: Charles Dickens' note about how Godwin wrote a book starting from the end.
MG: Explanation of the correct composition method of a good poem, following the example of the composition of The Raven
BG: Romanticism ideals, poets (Wordsworth, American Transcendentalists) boasting to compose poetry out of pure and sole inspiration from Nature.

• Daughter of sir Leslie Stephen, author of the National Biography
• Avid reader since childhood, she had free access to the library of her father (unabridged!)
• When Leslie died, she moved with sister Vanessa and brother Adrian in Bloomsbury
• Founded the Bloomsbury Group
• 1912: married Leonard Woolf
• 1917: Moved to Richmonf with Leonard, they bought a printing press and founded the Hogarth Press
• Wide career as a printer, essayist, novelist and critic, she earned a living through her writing
• Nervous breakdowns, badly treated.
• In 1940, her brother Adrian adviced she and Leonard that they were probably on nazi prescription lists. They tried to kill themselves with gasoline, but didn't succeed because of rationing.
• Moved back to Sussex, she drowned herself in the Ouse in 1941.

• Prose, very refined style

FG: The traditional division of purposes and beauty between prose and poetry is a nonsense.
MG: What makes a good literary work.
BG: Revival of antiquity in the second half of XIX century, discussion of Victorian ideals.

First Virginia Woolf's novel

Critic of biogarphy

• Long essay, divided in six chapters.

FG: Conference about Women in Fiction.
MG: Why there are not so many women in literature.
BG: Modern Era, new gender roles and women rights, and reactions of literates (virility values, dictatorships)

• American writer, playwriter, comedian, actor, director
• Rejected from private and public New York Colleges, made his career in television and cinema.
• Master of pastiche and parody, is perfectly able to mimick styles with irony

• Worked as an academists and newspaper writer
• Teaches Modern English Literature at University College, London.
• Most famous work: the Longman Companion to Victorian Novel

• Big name in the field of women studies
• Part of post-war criticism
• Questioned gender roles, adding language of psychology and the theories of Freud
• Free, dissacrating and earthly voice

• Divided in 17 small essays, parodic prose, mimicking other authors and critics. Published first in The New Yorker.

FG: Metterling's laundry list
MG: Critic of criticism, and of editory, only wanting to make money publishing EVERYTHING irrelevant.
BG: Capitalist America, economic boom

• Short essay, very harsh and frank tone and voice.

FG: Poets went to the Lake District only because they were on drugs.
MG: Figure of Dorothy Wordsworth as an example of female submissive role.
BG: Women Studies, '68 movement, feminism, post-war criticism.

• Collection of essays of Angela Carter

• Part of omonymous essay collection.

FG: Margaret Smith's critical edition and highlighting of the influence acting on Charlotte Bronte.
MG: The true inspiration for Mr Rochester was actually Bluebird. Contradictions and immoralities.
BG: Modern criticism, analyzing idiosyncrasies and unclear particulars, new perspectives on the past.