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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * List of abbreviations * 1: Rational ignorance and sceptical thinking * 2: Sceptical tendencies in Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding * 3: 'Sworn to no Master': Pope's scepticism in the Epistle to Bolingbroke and An Essay on Man * 4: Innocence and simulation in the scepticism of Hume * 5: Tristram Shandy: singularity and the single life * 6: Johnson's conclusiveness * Index
* Preface * List of abbreviations * 1: Rational ignorance and sceptical thinking * 2: Sceptical tendencies in Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding * 3: 'Sworn to no Master': Pope's scepticism in the Epistle to Bolingbroke and An Essay on Man * 4: Innocence and simulation in the scepticism of Hume * 5: Tristram Shandy: singularity and the single life * 6: Johnson's conclusiveness * Index
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