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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... nature , art my goddess ; to thy law / My ser- vices are bound . " In so far as nature simply means the sum total of things that really exist , Johnson holds to it firmly , since it affords his chief de- fense against destructive ...
... nature , art my goddess ; to thy law / My ser- vices are bound . " In so far as nature simply means the sum total of things that really exist , Johnson holds to it firmly , since it affords his chief de- fense against destructive ...
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... natural history tries to capture organisms as they ' are ' in nature — and it favors the beautiful and pleasant , rather than the disturbing or ugly . Its conceit is factuality and separation from human concerns - nature as she is ...
... natural history tries to capture organisms as they ' are ' in nature — and it favors the beautiful and pleasant , rather than the disturbing or ugly . Its conceit is factuality and separation from human concerns - nature as she is ...
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... nature has utterly different implications for a skeptic like Hume than it has for a traditionalist like White . As ... Nature " therefore does not so much signify a given group of objects as a certain " horizon " of knowledge , of the ...
... nature has utterly different implications for a skeptic like Hume than it has for a traditionalist like White . As ... Nature " therefore does not so much signify a given group of objects as a certain " horizon " of knowledge , of the ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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