Studies in the Genesis of Romantic Theory in the Eighteenth Century
Author: John George Robertson
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 316
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Author: John George Robertson
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John George Robertson
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 316
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Published: 1972
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Published: 1932
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard B. Schwartz
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780809315611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of nine essays by senior scholars Donald Greene, Morris R. Brownell, Richard B. Schwartz, Howard D. Weinbrot, Maximillian Novak, J. Paul Hunter, John H. Middendorf, Shirley Strum Kenny, and Gwin J. Kolb. They draw from their own experiences as students and scholars to assess the past and present position of theory in eighteenth-century studies and to discuss the important areas of scholarship that remain relatively unexplored, often proposing specific projects. Some essays are controversial; all are lively and personal. The essays evolved from a 1987 conference held at Georgetown University--the first such conference to examine the state of eighteenth-century literary studies in fifteen years.
Author: H. B. Nisbet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-12-08
Total Pages: 978
ISBN-13: 9780521317207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.
Author: James Edward Tobin
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780819601889
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 458
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim Milnes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-02-27
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1139435957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2003 study sheds light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge, particularly as they inherited them from the philosopher David Hume. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth century to answer empirical scepticism had produced a culture of 'indifferentism'. Tim Milnes explores the way in which Romantic writers extended this epistemic indifference through their resistance to argumentation, and finds that it exists in a perpetual state of tension with a compulsion to know. This tension is most clearly evident in the prose writing of the period, in works such as Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Hazlitt's Essay on the Principles of Human Action and Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. Milnes argues that it is in their oscillation between knowledge and indifference that the Romantics prefigure the ambivalent negotiations of modern post-analytic philosophy.
Author: Sarah Tindal Kareem
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-10-23
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0191003123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a truism that the period's literature is distinguished by its realism and air of probability, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder argues that wonder is integral to—rather than antithetical to—the developing techniques of novelistic fiction. Positioning its reader on the cusp between recognition and estrangement, between faith and doubt, modern fiction hinges upon wonder. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder unfolds its new account of fiction's rise through surprising readings of classic early novels—from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey—and brings to attention lesser-known works, most notably Rudolf Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels. In this bold new account, the eighteenth century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's relocation from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a reevaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.