Ends of Enlightenment

Bender, John B.

Ends of Enlightenment [Texte imprimé] / John Bender - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012 - 1 vol. (XIII-294 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 24 cm

Notes bibliogr.

Novel knowledge : judgment, experience, experiment -- Enlightenment fiction and the scientific hypothesis -- Matters of fact : virtual witnessing and the public in Hogarth's narratives -- Hume's learned and conversible worlds (with Robin Valenza) -- The novel as modern myth : Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Dracula -- Tom Jones and the public -- Prison reform and the sentence of narration in The vicar of Wakefield -- Impersonal violence : the penetrating gaze and the field of narration in Caleb Williams -- A postscript on my gross anatomy lab -- Rational choice in love : Les liaisons dangereuses -- Rhetoricality : on the modernist return of rhetoric (with David E. Wellbery).

978-0-8047-4211-5

European fiction--18th century--History and criticism Literature and science--Europe--History--18th century Realism in literature Literature--Philosophy Enlightenment--Influence

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