| Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel Contributor(s): Prince, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521550629 ISBN-13: 9780521550628 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.509 |
| LCCN: 95042217 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.34 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book discusses the intersection between philosophy and literature during the British Enlightenment. Its primary focus is the work of moral philosophers during the first half of the eighteenth century, but its larger interest is in understanding how the writing of philosophical fictions relates to the rise of the novel, and the emergence of philosophical aesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history. |