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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... story " that currently seems the true one ( 239 ) . Johnson and Hume agree to a surprising extent on the general outlines of that story ; the difference between them is that Hume wants his readers to admit that the story rests on social ...
... story " that currently seems the true one ( 239 ) . Johnson and Hume agree to a surprising extent on the general outlines of that story ; the difference between them is that Hume wants his readers to admit that the story rests on social ...
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... story he tells the reader is the story he has been telling himself . The ending is bitter enough , cer- tainly : " She is in all probability a most consummate dissembling whore " ( 160 ) . It is possible , incidentally , that Louisa was ...
... story he tells the reader is the story he has been telling himself . The ending is bitter enough , cer- tainly : " She is in all probability a most consummate dissembling whore " ( 160 ) . It is possible , incidentally , that Louisa was ...
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... story . The historian's role is therefore to join up the facts , or to fill in the gaps between them , in the way ... story waiting to be told . At all events , it is only when a human mind gives meaning to facts -when the story gets ...
... story . The historian's role is therefore to join up the facts , or to fill in the gaps between them , in the way ... story waiting to be told . At all events , it is only when a human mind gives meaning to facts -when the story gets ...
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Texts and Their Realities | 3 |
Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
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