04057nam 2200721 450 991046385110332120210422213035.03-11-039497-910.1515/9783110343403(CKB)3280000000039083(EBL)1433422(SSID)ssj0001401634(PQKBManifestationID)11760138(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001401634(PQKBWorkID)11370797(PQKB)11464926(MiAaPQ)EBC1433422(DE-B1597)246006(OCoLC)893457178(OCoLC)960201650(DE-B1597)9783110343403(Au-PeEL)EBL1433422(CaPaEBR)ebr11010358(CaONFJC)MIL806225(OCoLC)898769488(EXLCZ)99328000000003908320150209h20142014 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrCommon sense in early 18th-century British literature and culture ethics, aesthetics, and politics, 1680-1750 /Christoph HenkeBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2014.©20141 online resource (326 p.)Buchreihe der Anglia =Anglia Book Series,0340-5435 ;Volume 46Description based upon print version of record.3-11-034335-5 3-11-034340-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front matter --Preface --Contents --List of Illustrations --1. The Discourse of Common Sense --2. The Ethics of Common Sense --3. The Transgressions of Common Sense --4. The Politics of Common Sense --5. The Other of Common Sense --6. The Afterlife of Common Sense --Bibliography --Author and Title Index --Subject IndexWhile the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as 'common sense' or 'good sense' are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture - Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson - and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.Buchreihe der Anglia ;Volume 46.Literature and societyGreat BritainHistory18th centuryCommon sense in literatureEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismCommon senseSocial aspectsGreat BritainGreat BritainIntellectual life18th centuryElectronic books.Literature and societyHistoryCommon sense in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.Common senseSocial aspects820.9/355Henke Christoph1041107MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463851103321Common sense in early 18th-century British literature and culture2464418UNINA