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Anecdotes of Enlightenment : human nature from Locke to Wordsworth /

"This volume is both a formal study of the anecdote's properties and possibilities and an inquiry into the anecdote's intellectual function in Enlightenment culture. The author contends that anecdotes acted in Enlightenment writing as mediators between the incidents of human life and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wood, James Robert, 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Anecdotes > History and criticism.
European literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Enlightenment.
Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Europe > Civilization > 18th century.
Anecdotes.
Civilization.
European literature.
Intellectual life.
Europe.
1700-1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Anecdotal experiments
  • Hume and the laws of anecdote
  • Anecdotes in the wake of the Endeavor
  • Anecdotal poetics in Lyrical Ballads.