The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume

ISBN-13: 9780801430145 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 264 str.

Adam Potkay

Opis

"This highly recommended study manifests a sure grasp of political and cultural history, familiarity with current critical approaches, and a lucid and often witty style." Choice"Potkay sees in Hume and in the period, a deep ambivalence toward eloquence. . . . While Hume is at the center of this book, much of Potkay's analysis concerns other writers, notably Pope, Thomas Gray, Sterne, and Macpherson. . . . Potkay's] work is ambitious, capacious, and erudite by any standard; as a first book it is astonishingly so." Studies in English Literature"