02777nam 22004813 450 991082750030332120230227212800.00-8139-4221-7(CKB)4100000010234550(MiAaPQ)EBC6508942(Au-PeEL)EBL6508942(OCoLC)1138875742(EXLCZ)99410000001023455020230227d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAnecdotes of Enlightenment Human Nature from Locke to WordsworthCharlottesville :University of Virginia Press,2019.©2019.20190-8139-4220-9 Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- ONE. Anecdotal Experiments -- TWO. Hume and the Laws of Anecdote -- THREE. Anecdotes in the Wake of the Endeavour -- FOUR. Anecdotal Poetics in Lyrical Ballads -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."This volume is both a formal study of the anecdote's properties and possibilities and an inquiry into the anecdote's intellectual function in Enlightenment culture. The author contends that anecdotes acted in Enlightenment writing as mediators between the incidents of human life and the laws of human nature, connecting the abstractions of philosophical reflection with lived experience. Successive chapters take a specific genre (the essay), a single writer (David Hume), a historical event (the Endeavour voyage), and a literary project (the Lyrical Ballads) as nets for collecting anecdotes. Each chapter is committed to the particularities of individual anecdotes and the specificities of the uses to which these anecdotes were put. However, the book also outlines a larger historical narrative in which the anecdote moves from a central place in the science of human nature to holding a particular place in poetry, even as the anecdote began to lose its currency in the emerging human sciences"--Provided by publisher.Anecdotes--History and criticismEuropean literature--18th century--History and criticismEnlightenmentEuropeIntellectual life18th centuryEuropeCivilization18th centuryAnecdotes--History and criticism.European literature--18th century--History and criticism.Enlightenment.809/.982Wood James Robert1712619MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827500303321Anecdotes of Enlightenment4104931UNINA