Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780521024747
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Essays; English literature--18th century--History and; English literature--18th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Semiotics & Theory
First sentence: The practice of literary criticism in the last fifty years is both a precedent for the contemporary literary critic's concern with Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and a goad to intensify that concern.