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The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in Eighteenth-Century Prose - Hardcover

Uphaus, Robert W.

 
9780813113890: The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in Eighteenth-Century Prose
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 081311389X ISBN 13: 9780813113890
Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 1979

Inhaltsangabe

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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Robert W. Uphaus is associate professor of English at Michigan State University.

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Verlag
The University Press of Kentucky
Erscheinungsdatum
1979
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
081311389X
ISBN 13 
9780813113890
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
176
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