The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-century BritainJohns Hopkins University Press, 2000 - 250 Seiten What is the relationship between the self and society? Where do moral judgements come from? As Blakey Vermeule demonstrates in this discussion, such questions about sociability and moral philosophy were central to 18th-century writers and artists. Vermeule focuses on a group of aesthetically complicated moral texts: Alexander Pope's character sketches and Dunciad, Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, and David Hume's self-consciously theatrical writings on pride and his autobiographical writings on religious melancholia. These writers and their characters confronted familiar social dilemmas - sexual desire, gender identity, family relations, cheating, ambition, status, rivalry and shame - and responded by developing a practical ethics about their own behaviour at the same time that they refined their moral judgements of others. |
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... literary theory has been profoundly dualist : it understands literary language as different in kind from ordinary language , and it understands authorship as an activity different in kind from other ac- tivities . The relevance of ...
... literary theory has been profoundly dualist : it understands literary language as different in kind from ordinary language , and it understands authorship as an activity different in kind from other ac- tivities . The relevance of ...
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... literary affair in the sense described by Alvin Kernan : " Discussions of litera- ture ... seem to assume that literary texts , old or new , differ from other types of texts in being self - consciously aware that they are not trying to ...
... literary affair in the sense described by Alvin Kernan : " Discussions of litera- ture ... seem to assume that literary texts , old or new , differ from other types of texts in being self - consciously aware that they are not trying to ...
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... literary image , subor- dinated by gender . It is almost as though Warton oscillates between a yearn- ing to take his place at the table of the great by repeating literary imitations , and a yearning to be served up at the table of the ...
... literary image , subor- dinated by gender . It is almost as though Warton oscillates between a yearn- ing to take his place at the table of the great by repeating literary imitations , and a yearning to be served up at the table of the ...
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The Art of Obligation | 29 |
Notes | 209 |
Works Cited | 229 |
Urheberrecht | |
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