The impossible observer : reason and the reader in 18th century prose /

Uphaus, Robert W.,

The impossible observer : reason and the reader in 18th century prose / Reason and the reader in eighteenth century prose Robert W. Uphaus. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, (c)1979. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The impossible observer -- Swift and the problematical nature of meaning -- Mandeville and the force of prejudice -- Defoe, deliverance, and dissimulation -- Clarissa, Amelia, and the state of probation -- Johnson's equipoise and the state of man -- Sterne's sixth sense -- Moral and tendency in Caleb Williams -- Criticism and the idea of nature.



9780813159652


English prose literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Books and reading--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
Reader-response criticism.
Reason in literature.


Electronic Books.

PR769 / .I476 1979