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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452585703321

Autore

Bender John

Titolo

Ends of Enlightenment [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8461-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/033

809.3033

Soggetti

Enlightenment - Influence

Enlightenment -- Influence

European fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

European fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism

Literature - Philosophy

Literature -- Philosophy

Literature and science - Europe - History - 18th century

Literature and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century

Realism in literature

European fiction - History and criticism - 18th century - Europe

Literature and science - History - 18th century

Realism in literature - Philosophy

Literature - Influence

Enlightenment

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; I. Introduction; Ends of Enlightenment; II. Enlightenment Knowledge; 1. Novel Knowledge: Judgment, Experience, Experiment; 2. Enlightenment Fiction and the Scientific Hypothesis; 3. Matters of Fact: Virtual Witnessing and the Public in Hogarth's Narratives; 4. Hume's Learned and Conversible



Worlds (with Robin Valenza); III. Enlightenment Novels; 5. The Novel as Modern Myth: Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Dracula; 6. Tom Jones and the Public; 7. Prison Reform and the Sentence of Narration in The Vicar of Wakefield

8. Impersonal Violence: The Penetrating Gaze and the Field of Narration in Caleb WilliamsA Postscript on My Gross Anatomy Lab; 9. Rational Choice in Love: Les Liaisons dangereuses; IV. Enlightenment Frameworks; 10. Rhetoricality: On the Modernist Return of Rhetoric (with David E. Wellbery); Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European Enlightenment was a state of being, a personal stance, and an orientation to the world. Ways of probing experience and knowledge in the novel and in the visual arts were interleaved with methods of experimentation in science and philosophy.  This book's fresh perspective considers the novel as an art but also as a force in thinking. The critica