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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism

1. Classical Criticism
2. Middle Ages
3. Renaissance
4. Eighteenth Century
5. Romanticism
6. Nineteenth Century: 1830–1914
7. Modernism and the New Criticism
8. From Formalism to Poststructuralism
9. Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives