|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910807971403321 |
|
|
Autore |
Bender John B |
|
|
Titolo |
Ends of Enlightenment / / John Bender |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (311 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Enlightenment - Influence |
European fiction - 18th century - History and criticism |
Literature and science - Europe - History - 18th century |
Literature - Philosophy |
Realism in literature |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|