Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson, Volume 10Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 262 páginas During the second half of the eighteenth century, the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional: philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy. Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text. Their political conservatism (often neglected by modern scholars) was an extensively thought out response to a world in which meaning was inseparable from consensus, and in which consensus was increasingly under attack. |
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Fictions of Self and World | 16 |
Life as Art | 66 |
Commanding the Past | 96 |
The Fictions of Belief | 129 |
Enlightenment Science Conservative Myth | 159 |
The Breakdown of Consensus | 179 |
Resymbolizing the World | 216 |
Works Cited | 245 |
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