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Ends of Enlightenment.
Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European Enlightenment was a state of being, a personal stance, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgments; I. Introduction; Ends of Enlightenment; II. Enlightenment Knowledge; 1. Novel Knowledge: Judgment, Experience, Experiment; 2. Enlightenment Fiction and the Scientific Hypothesis; 3. Matters of Fact: Virtual Witnessing and the Public in Hogarth's Narratives; 4. Hume's Learned and Conversible Worlds (with Robin Valenza); III. Enlightenment Novels; 5. The Novel as Modern Myth: Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Dracula; 6. Tom Jones and the Public; 7. Prison Reform and the Sentence of Narration in The Vicar of Wakefield.
- 8. Impersonal Violence: The Penetrating Gaze and the Field of Narration in Caleb WilliamsA Postscript on My Gross Anatomy Lab; 9. Rational Choice in Love: Les Liaisons dangereuses; IV. Enlightenment Frameworks; 10. Rhetoricality: On the Modernist Return of Rhetoric (with David E. Wellbery); Notes; Index.