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Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I: Laughing with Reason Part II: The Language and Appearance of Ridicule

1672: “Critiques, Do Your Worst”: Buckingham’s Rehearsal 1675: Lord Rochester’s Disdain: “An Allusion to Horace” 1704: Jonathan Swift and My Good Lords the Critics: A Tale of a Tub 1704: Swift’s Goddess Criticism: The Battle of the Books 1704: William Wycherley’s Anti-Critical Rampagings 1710: Addison and the Art of Critical Tittling and Tattling 1711: How Not to Write Literary Criticism: The Cautions of Pope’s Essay 1713: Tyrants in Wit and Pretenders to Criticism: The Guardian 1714: The Critical Insect of Thomas Parnell: “The Bookworm” 1717: A Life in Criticism: Parnell’s Remarks on Zoilus 1719–1720: Steele and the Big Beast of Criticism: The Theatre 1735: Damning with Faint Praise: Pope’s Epistle to Arbuthnot 1741/1743: Pope’s Big Sleep of Criticism: The Dunciad 1740: Henry Fielding’s Guesswork: The Champion 1744: Sarah Fielding on Critical Cackling and Gobbling: David Simple 1749: Henry Fielding’s Critical Reptiles and Slanderers: Tom Jones 1748: Thomas Edwards’s “Airy Petulance”: The Canons of Criticism 1751: Critical Puffery and Scrapping: Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle 1751: Smart’s Practical Critic: The Student 1751: Smart’s Semicolonic Ramblings: The Midwife (I) 1751: Mrs. Midnight’s Art of Close Reading: The Midwife (II) 1753: Smart’s Critical Dogs and Spiders: The Midwife (III) 1751: Microscopic and Telescopic Critics: Johnson’s Rambler 1752: George Stevens’s Pedasculus: Distress upon Distress 1756: Critical Fishiness: Smart, Rolt, and The Universal Visiter 1756: Garrick’s Witches’ Brew: “A Recipe for a Modern Critic” 1756: Critical Rodents and The Universal Visiter 1759: Oliver Goldsmith’s Specious Idlers: Polite Learning in Europe 1759: Johnson’s Critical Minim: The Idler 1760: Goldsmith’s Critical Spiders and Blockheads: The Critical Review 1762: Alexander Mackenzie’s The Hungry Mob of Scriblers and Etchers 1759–1767: Sterne’s Bobs and Trinkets of Criticism: Tristram Shandy 1765: The Reviewers’ Cave 1766: Evan Lloyd and the Critic’s Catacomb of Words: The Powers of the Pen 1771: A Connoisseur Admiring a Dark Night Piece 1772: An Old Macaroni Critic at a New Play 1776: Gibbon’s Critical Overcast: The Decline and Fall 1782: Gillray’s Critical Owl 1783: Dr. Pomposo 1787: The Critics: A Poem 1796: The Critic at Home 1818: A Connoisseur in Brokers Alley

Part III: Legacies of Ridicule Bibliography Contributors

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