Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment - Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel

Zusammenfassung This book discusses the intersection between philosophy and literature during the British Enlightenment. Novelists such as Fielding! Sterne! Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context! and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: dialogue and Enlightenment; Part I. Strains of Enlightenment: 1. Shaftesbury's characteristic genres: concepts of criticism in the early eighteenth century; 2. Shaftesbury's The Moralists: a dialogue upon dialogue; 3. Berkeley and the paradoxes of empiricism: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous; 4. Berkeley's Alciphron, or the Christian Cicero; 5. Hume and the end of religious dialogue: Dialogues concerning Natural Religion; Part II. Dialogue, Aesthetics and the Novel: 6. The Platonic revival: 1740-70; 7. Anti-Platonism and the novelistic character; 8. Dead conversations: Richard Hurd's late poetics of dialogue; 9. Utopia or conversation: transforming dialogue in Johnson and Austen; Epilogue: some dialectics of Enlightenment.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael Prince, Michael (Boston University) Prince, Michael B. Prince
• Mitarbeit: Howard Erskine-Hill (Herausgeber), John J. Richetti (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521021432
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02143-2
• Seiten: 300
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft