Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and JohnsonUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 262 من الصفحات During the second half of the 18th century the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional - philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy, Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text. Their political conservatism was a considered response to a world in which meaning was inseparable from consensus, and in which consensus was increasingly under attack. |
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... Become a verse ? Is there in truth no beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair ? May no lines pass , except they do their duty Not to a true , but painted chair ? By the time of Hume and Johnson it was becoming increasingly ...
... Become a verse ? Is there in truth no beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair ? May no lines pass , except they do their duty Not to a true , but painted chair ? By the time of Hume and Johnson it was becoming increasingly ...
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... becomes a spectator to oneself in order to determine if one can enter into one's own feelings ; one knows if one sympathizes with oneself because one sympa- thizes with the sentiments of the spectator - judge one has become " ( 598 ) ...
... becomes a spectator to oneself in order to determine if one can enter into one's own feelings ; one knows if one sympathizes with oneself because one sympa- thizes with the sentiments of the spectator - judge one has become " ( 598 ) ...
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... become is now , by definition , right ; but Burke has less to say about what will become —the direction in which Romantic thinkers were soon to carry histori- cism . As Paul Lucas observes , “ If prescription could begin in violence and ...
... become is now , by definition , right ; but Burke has less to say about what will become —the direction in which Romantic thinkers were soon to carry histori- cism . As Paul Lucas observes , “ If prescription could begin in violence and ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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