Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Writing and belief: Hume's stylistic emergence
  • William Law and the "fiction of behaviour"
  • pt. 2. Toward a poetics of conversion: The flight from history to mid-century poetry
  • Ambition, conversion, and lyric grace
  • pt. 3. Narrative diffusion: The long poem obstructed
  • The final novels of Fielding and Richardson
  • Conclusion: Literary loneliness and the historical moment.