Ends of Enlightenment [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Bender John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina |
809.3/033
809.3033 |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8047-8461-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452585703321 |
Bender John | ||
Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ends of Enlightenment [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Bender John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina |
809.3/033
809.3033 |
Soggetto topico |
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 and morals Enlightenment Languages & Literatures Literature - General |
ISBN | 0-8047-8461-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779266003321 |
Bender John | ||
Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Imperfect creatures : vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 / / Lucinda Cole |
Autore | Cole Lucinda |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina | 614.43 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism Animals in literature Insects in literature Literature and science - History - 17th century Literature and science - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
0-472-90063-3
0-472-12155-3 |
Classificazione | NAT001000LIT019000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Reading beneath the Grain -- Rats, Witches, Miasma, and Early Modern Theories of Contagion -- Swarming Things: Dearth and the Plagues of Egypt in Wither and Cowley -- "Observe the Frog": Imperfect Creatures, Neuroanatomy, and the Problem of the Human -- Libertine Biopolitics: Dogs, Bitches, and Parasites in Shadwell, Rochester, and Gay -- What Happened to the Rats? Hoarding, Hunger, and Storage on Crusoe's Island -- Afterword: We Have Never Been Perfect. |
Altri titoli varianti | Vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136353803321 |
Cole Lucinda | ||
Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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