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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... looks absurd to common sense is violating principles that are too fundamental to be called into question . They cannot ... look behind the scenes in nature's work . This is a puppet surely , contrived by too bold an apprentice of nature ...
... looks absurd to common sense is violating principles that are too fundamental to be called into question . They cannot ... look behind the scenes in nature's work . This is a puppet surely , contrived by too bold an apprentice of nature ...
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... look- ing provide a mutual check : you evaluate the work of art by comparing it with your own experience of the world , and you look at the world with closer attention because works of art have helped you to know what to look for . In ...
... look- ing provide a mutual check : you evaluate the work of art by comparing it with your own experience of the world , and you look at the world with closer attention because works of art have helped you to know what to look for . In ...
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... looks at Scotland ; Bos- well looks at Johnson looking at Scotland , at his own role in bringing the two great subjects together , and at the sparks that are sometimes struck by their collision . In the London Journal Johnson appears ...
... looks at Scotland ; Bos- well looks at Johnson looking at Scotland , at his own role in bringing the two great subjects together , and at the sparks that are sometimes struck by their collision . In the London Journal Johnson appears ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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