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.
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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.