"A BOOK OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE
both for academics and for the reading public at large. It is
an extraordinarily sane and searching study of the course of
modern literary criticism.... A landmark study."
-Sacvan Bercovitch
"Wonderfully timely and deftly written
... Explores the critical temperament from Matthew Arnold
through the new critics, the literary journalists,
deconstruction, and the new historicism. Throughout,
sanity of judgment is raised to brilliance."
-R.W.B. Lewis
"Forceful and enlightening...
faShiOned
with an
insider's empathy and an outsider's insight."
-Leo Braudy
"Should be read by all those who are interested in the state
of criticism... and those who wonder why they're not."
-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
DOUBLE
AGENT
The Critic
&
Society
MORRIS DICKSTEIN
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