Associationism and the Literary Imagination, 1739-1939
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: August 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780748609123
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; General; 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; English literature; History and criticism
Description: This study traces the development of philosophies of literary creativity within the British empiristic tradition, examining everything from David Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature' to I.A. Richards' 'Principles of Literary Criticism'.