Ends of Enlightenment
By: John Bender
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804742115; 9780804742122
Subjects: History; Literature; Realism in literature; Philosophy; Influence; History and criticism; Literature and science; Enlightenment; European fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Novel knowledge : judgment, experience, experiment; title: Enlightenment fiction and the scientific hypothesis; title: Matters of fact : virtual witnessing and the public in Hogarth's narratives; title: Hume's learned and conversible worlds (with Robin Valenza); title: The novel as modern myth : Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Dracula; title: Tom Jones and the public; title: Prison reform and the sentence of narration in The vicar of Wakefield; title: Impersonal violence : the penetrating gaze and the field of narration in Caleb Williams; title: A postscript on my gross anatomy lab; title: Rational choice in love : Les liaisons dangereuses; title: Rhetoricality : on the modernist return of rhetoric (with David E. Wellbery).