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

This book discusses the intersection between philosophy and literature during the British Enlightenment.

List of contents

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.

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Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Prince
• Assisted by: Howard Erskine-Hill (Editor), John J. Richetti (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2014
• EAN: 9780521550628
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55062-8
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 640 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies