Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson

ISBN-13: 9780199253180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 304 str.

G. F. Parker

Opis

In this first study of the role of scepticism in literature, Fred Parker offers a lively and stimulating introduction to key issues in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy. Parker traces the presence of sceptical thinking in works by Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, relates it more broadly to the social self-consciousness of eighteenth-century culture, and discusses its source in Locke and its inspiration in Montaigne.

Recenzje

... should encourage scholars to inquire further into the profound influence of cornucopian texts from the French Renaissance on eighteenth-century English literature.

O autorze

Fred Parker is a University Lecturer in English and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He is the author of Johnson's Shakespeare (OUP 1989 - paperback 1991).