The English Mind

Klappentext Essays planned to constitute the first literary study of the English moralists of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Zusammenfassung Written by separate hands! mainly by literary critics at Cambridge! this collection of essays was planned as a whole and each executed with a common purpose: to produce the first literary study of the English moralists of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Basil Willey: a tribute Herbert Butterfield; 1. Francis Bacon Anne Righter; 2. Thomas Hobbes R. L. Brett; 3. John Locke and the rhetoric of the Second Treatise Theodore Redpath; 4. Shaftesbury's horses of instruction J. B. Broadbent; 5. Berkeley and the style of dialogue Donald Davie; 6. Joseph Butler George Watson; 7. David Hume: reasoning and experience Raymond Williams; 8. Radical prose in the late eighteenth century Matthew Hodgart; 9. Wordsworth and the empirical philosophers Hugh Sykes Davies; 10. Coleridge and the Victorians Graham Hough; 11. Newman and the Romantic sensibility John Beer; 12. John Stuart Mill Noel Annan; 13. Matthew Arnold and the continental idea Heinrich Straumann; 14. Joseph Conrad: alienation and commitment Ian Watt; 15. English and some Christian traditions John Holloway.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Sykes Davies, Sykes Davies Hugh, Hugh Sykes Davies, George Watson
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521137072
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13707-2
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Literary Criticism & Collections, Ethics and moral philosophy, Educational: English Literature, Educational: First / native language: Literature studies