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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bender, John B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Temas:
1700-1799
Enlightenment > Influence.
European fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science > Europe > History > 18th century.
Literature > Philosophy.
Realism in literature.
Siècle des Lumières > Influence.
Roman européen > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et sciences > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
European fiction.
Literature and science.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Novel knowledge : judgment, experience, experiment
  • Enlightenment fiction and the scientific hypothesis
  • Matters of fact : virtual witnessing and the public in Hogarth's narratives
  • Hume's learned and conversible worlds (with Robin Valenza)
  • The novel as modern myth : Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Dracula
  • Tom Jones and the public
  • Prison reform and the sentence of narration in The vicar of Wakefield
  • Impersonal violence : the penetrating gaze and the field of narration in Caleb Williams
  • A postscript on my gross anatomy lab
  • Rational choice in love : Les liaisons dangereuses
  • Rhetoricality : on the modernist return of rhetoric (with David E. Wellbery).

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