Probability and Literary Form: Philosophic Theory and Literary Practice in the Augustan Age - Couverture rigide

Patey, Douglas Lane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521254566 ISBN 13 : 9780521254564

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1984

Synopsis

This highly original and penetrating study explores fundamental intellectual predispositions and concepts which underpin the literature and thought of the Augustan period in England.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This highly original and penetrating study explores fundamental intellectual predispositions and concepts which underpin the literature and thought of the Augustan period in England. By examining in particular Augustan notions of probability and the way they provided a framework for thinking about and organising experience, Dr Patey reconstructs a characteristically eighteenth-century theory of literature which offers a much more satisfactory account of the work of Pope, Johnson, Fielding and others than the Romantic literary categories already in existence. The scope of this study is encyclopaedic and it will be an essential reference work for all scholars of eighteenth-century English literature and intellectual history, as well as historians of ideas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521254566
• ISBN 13: 9780521254564
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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