Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment
Subtitle: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521021432
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction--18th century--History and cr; English fiction--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: At the beginning of the eighteenth century, philosophical dialogue holds a liminal position between one hierarchy of genres premised upon formal unity and metaphysical certitude and another hierarchy of kinds engendering formal variety and the loss of any higher (metaphysical) locus of truth.