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The impossible observer : reason and the reader in 18th century prose /

Rationality, objectivity, symmetry: were these really principles urged and exemplified by eighteenth-century English prose? In this persuasive study, Robert W. Uphaus argues that, on the contrary, many of the most important works of the period do not actually lead the reader into a new awareness of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Uphaus, Robert W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1979.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The impossible observer
  • Swift and the problematical nature of meaning
  • Mandeville and the force of prejudice
  • Defoe, deliverance, and dissimulation
  • Clarissa, Amelia, and the state of probation
  • Johnson's equipoise and the state of man
  • Sterne's sixth sense
  • Moral and tendency in Caleb Williams
  • Criticism and the idea of nature.