Common Sense In Early 18th Century British Literature And Culture
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Common Sense In Early 18th Century British Literature And Culture
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Author : Christoph Henke
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-10-14
Common Sense In Early 18th Century British Literature And Culture written by Christoph Henke and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.
Cartesian Poetics
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Author : Andrea Gadberry
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Cartesian Poetics written by Andrea Gadberry and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of René Descartes and finds them in the philosopher’s implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes’s thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how markers of poetic genres from love lyric and elegy to the puzzling forms of the riddle and the anagram betray an impassioned negotiation with the difficulties of thought and its limits. Where others have seen Cartesian philosophy as a triumph of reason, Gadberry reveals that the philosopher accused of having “slashed poetry’s throat” instead enlisted poetic form to contain thought’s frustrations. Gadberry’s approach to seventeenth-century writings poses questions urgent for the twenty-first. Bringing literature and philosophy into rich dialogue, Gadberry centers close reading as a method uniquely equipped to manage skepticism, tolerate critical ambivalence, and detect feeling in philosophy. Helping us read classic moments of philosophical argumentation in a new light, this elegant study also expands outward to redefine thinking in light of its poetic formations.
Sterne Tristram Yorick
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Author : Melvyn New
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-11-12
Sterne Tristram Yorick written by Melvyn New and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
These thirteen essays represent a very wide range of approaches to the fictions of Laurence Sterne, who has certainly evolved into the eighteenth century's most important influence on modern and postmodern literature. While each essay centers on his written texts or his lived contexts, they together offer homage to his endurance as an author emulated by many modern writers—Nietzsche, Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Mann, Marías, Goytisolo, Fuentes, Rushdie, and Pamuk; indeed, what important writer in the past 150 years has not been influenced by Sterne?
English Literature And Society In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Leslie Stephen
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
English Literature And Society In The Eighteenth Century written by Leslie Stephen and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with History categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century" by Leslie Stephen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Culture Of Sensibility
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Author : G. J. Barker-Benfield
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1992
The Culture Of Sensibility written by G. J. Barker-Benfield and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
During the eighteenth century, "sensibility," which once denoted merely the receptivity of the senses, came to mean a particular kind of acute and well-developed consciousness invested with spiritual and moral values and largely identified with women. How this change occurred and what it meant for society is the subject of G.J. Barker-Benfield's argument in favor of a "culture" of sensibility, in addition to the more familiar "cult." Barker-Benfield's expansive account traces the development of sensibility as a defining concept in literature, religion, politics, economics, education, domestic life, and the social world. He demonstrates that the "cult of sensibility" was at the heart of the culture of middle-class women that emerged in eighteenth-century Britain. The essence of this culture, Barker-Benfield reveals, was its articulation of women's consciousness in a world being transformed by the rise of consumerism that preceded the industrial revolution. The new commercial capitalism, while fostering the development of sensibility in men, helped many women to assert their own wishes for more power in the home and for pleasure in "the world" beyond. Barker-Benfield documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility from struggles over self-definition within individuals and, above all, between men and women as increasingly self-conscious groups. He discusses many writers, from Rochester through Hannah More, but pays particular attention to Mary Wollstonecraft as the century's most articulate analyst of the feminized culture of sensibility. Barker-Benfield's book shows how the cultivation of sensibility, while laying foundations for humanitarian reforms generally had as its primary concern the improvement of men's treatment of women. In the eighteenth-century identification of women with "virtue in distress" the author finds the roots of feminism, to the extent that it has expressed women's common sense of their victimization by men. Drawing on literature, philosophical psychology, social and economic thought, and a richly developed cultural background, The Culture of Sensibility offers an innovative and compelling way to understand the transformation of British culture in the eighteenth century.
Fables Of Modernity
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Author : Laura Brown
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2001
Fables Of Modernity written by Laura Brown and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The metropolis : the fable of the city sewer -- Imperial fate : the fable of torrents and oceans -- Finance : the fable of lady credit -- Capitalism : fables of a new world -- Spectacles of cultural contact : the fable of the native prince -- the orangutang, the lap dog, and the parrot : the fable of the nonhuman being.
Passions Sympathy And Print Culture
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Author : Heather Kerr
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-03-08
Passions Sympathy And Print Culture written by Heather Kerr and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-08 with History categories.
This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ranging from popular novels and journalism, through philosophical studies of the Scottish Enlightenment, to last words, aesthetics, and plastic surgery.
The Victorians And The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Francis O'Gorman
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Victorians And The Eighteenth Century written by Francis O'Gorman and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
Disrupting the common assumption that the Victorians regarded their eighteenth-century predecessors with little interest or with disdain, the essays in The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century propose a re-examination of these relationships. Together, they expose some of the significant and complex ways in which key aspects and texts of the eighteenth century were situated, read, and transacted within the post-Romantic nineteenth century. Individual essays examine the influence of the work of Pope and the eighteenth-century novelists such as Johnson, Chatterton, and Rousseau on a range of Victorian writers and cultural productions, including Dickens, Eliot, Oliphant, Ruskin, historical fiction, late Victorian art criticism, The English Men of Letters series, and the Oxford English Dictionary. The contributors challenge long-held views about Victorian uses of the past, and offer new insights into how the literature and culture of the eighteenth century helped shape the culture and identity of the nineteenth. This collection of essays by an impressive array of scholars, with a Preface by David Fairer, represents a unique approach to this area of literary history and offers new perspectives on the nature and methodology of 'periodization'. While it is obviously of great interest to students of eighteenth-century and Victorian literature, it will also appeal to readers more broadly concerned with questions of literary influence, periodization, and historiography.
Annual Bibliography Of English Language And Literature
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Author : Modern Humanities Research Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Annual Bibliography Of English Language And Literature written by Modern Humanities Research Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with English language categories.
Includes both books and articles.
American Book Publishing Record
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
American Book Publishing Record written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with American literature categories.