The Impossible Observer : Reason and the Reader in Eighteenth-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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Main Author: Uphaus, Robert W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1979.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Reason in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Enlightenment.
English prose literature.
Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Raison dans la litterature.
Esthetique de la reception.
Siecle des Lumieres > Grande-Bretagne.
Livres et lecture > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Prose anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Enlightenment > Great Britain.
Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 just how problematical, how unsusceptible to reason, both the world and our easy assumptions about it are. Uphaus discusses a broad range of writers -- Swift, Defoe, Mandeyville, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Johnson, and Godwin -- showing that beneath their variety lies a fundamentally similar chall.
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages).
ISBN:9780813159652

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