description: This book discusses the intersection between philosophy and literature during the British Enlightenment. Its primary focus is the work of moral philosophers during the first half of the eighteenth century, but its larger interest is in understanding how the writing of philosophical fictions relates to the rise of the novel, and the emergence of philosophical aesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history.
language: English
title: Philos Dialogue in Brit Enlightment: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel
titlecomplete: Philos Dialogue in Brit Enlightment: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, Series Number 31)
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publisher: Cambridge University Press