Ends of enlightenment

Bender, John

Ends of enlightenment - Stanford Stanford University Press 2012 - xiii,294p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Novel knowledge : judgment, experience, experiment -- Enlightenment fiction and the scientific hypothesis -- Matters of fact : virtual witnessing and the public in Hogarth's narratives -- Hume's learned and conversible worlds (with Robin Valenza) -- The novel as modern myth : Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Dracula -- Tom Jones and the public -- Prison reform and the sentence of narration in The vicar of Wakefield -- Impersonal violence : the penetrating gaze and the field of narration in Caleb Williams -- A postscript on my gross anatomy lab -- Rational choice in love : Les liaisons dangereuses -- Rhetoricality : on the modernist return of rhetoric (with David E. Wellbery).

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European fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Literature and science--History--Europe--18th century.
Realism in literature.
Literature--Philosophy.
Enlightenment--Influence.

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