This highly original and penetrating study explores fundamental intellectual predispositions and concepts which underpin the literature and thought of the Augustan period in England.
This highly original and penetrating study explores fundamental intellectual predispositions and concepts which underpin the literature and thought of the Augustan period in England.
Preface Part I. Stages in the History of the Idea of Probability: 1. From rhetoric to science 2. Probability and signs: reasoning from effect to cause Part II. Probability in Augustan Literary Criticism: 3. Vraisemblance, probability and opinion 4. The literary work as a hierarchy of probable signs 5. The role of probability in Augustan theories of imitation Part III. Probability and the Meaning of Augustan Narrative: 6. Probability and literary form 7. The conditions of knowing in Augustan fiction 8. Sentimental communion and probable inference: Mackenzie and Sterne 9. Association, reverie and the decline of hierarchy Concluding theoretical postscript Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.
Preface Part I. Stages in the History of the Idea of Probability: 1. From rhetoric to science 2. Probability and signs: reasoning from effect to cause Part II. Probability in Augustan Literary Criticism: 3. Vraisemblance, probability and opinion 4. The literary work as a hierarchy of probable signs 5. The role of probability in Augustan theories of imitation Part III. Probability and the Meaning of Augustan Narrative: 6. Probability and literary form 7. The conditions of knowing in Augustan fiction 8. Sentimental communion and probable inference: Mackenzie and Sterne 9. Association, reverie and the decline of hierarchy Concluding theoretical postscript Appendices Notes Bibliography Index.
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