Hawley, John C., S.J. “Charles Kingsley and
Literary Theory of the 1850s,” Victorian Literature and Culture
Vol. 19 (1991): 167-188.
Hawley discusses Kingsley's literary criticism of his own and of others'
writing as well as other literary critics' views on his writings during
the 1850s. He points out that this period witnessed rapidly emerging
theories of criticism that tended to be disapproving both of Kingsley's
critical views and of his own creative works. In particular, Hawley
examines Kingsley's "growing anxiety to influence, an anxiety expressed
in terms of the aesthetic debate of the day, but rooted in the age's religious
and political questions" (168).
Literary
Criticism, Kingsley's; Reception
of Kingsley's Works. |
