Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment
Subtitle: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521550628
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; History and criticism; 18th Century English Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Intellectual life; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Aesthetics, British; 18th century; English fiction; Great Britain; Philosophy, British
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.