The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in Eighteenth-Century ProseUniversity Press of Kentucky, 31.12.1979 - 176 Seiten Rationality, objectivity, symmetry: were these really principles urged and exemplified by eighteenth-century English prose? In this persuasive study, Robert W. Uphaus argues that, on the contrary, many of the most important works of the period do not actually lead the reader into a new awareness of just how problematical, how unsusceptible to reason, both the world and our easy assumptions about it are. Uphaus discusses a broad range of writers -- Swift, Defoe, Mandeyville, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Johnson, and Godwin -- showing that beneath their variety lies a fundamentally similar challenge, addressed to the critical procedure which assumes that the exercise of reason is a sufficient tool for an understanding the appeal of imaginative literature. |
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Swift and the Problematical Nature | 9 |
Mandeville and the Force of Prejudice | 28 |
Defoe Deliverance and Dissimulation | 46 |
Urheberrecht | |
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