
Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture : Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics, 1680-1750.
Title:
Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture : Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics, 1680-1750.
Author:
Henke, Christoph.
ISBN:
9783110343403
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (387 pages)
Series:
Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; v.46
Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series
Contents:
Buchreihe der ANGLIA/ ANGLIA Book Series -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1 The Discourse of Common Sense -- 1.1 The Argument: Common Sense as Compensation -- 1.2 A Short History of Common Sense in Philosophy andCriticism -- 1.3 The Discursive Formation of Early Eighteenth-CenturyCommon Sense -- 2 The Ethics of Common Sense -- 2.1 Good Sense and Good Taste: The Common-Sense Unionof Ethics and Aesthetics - Shaftesbury and Pope -- 2.2 Perversions of Moral Sense - The Fable of the Bees -- 2.3 Life Ethic and Happiness - Samuel Johnson and Rasselas -- 3 The Transgressions of Common Sense -- 3.1 "These Arrows that fly in the Dark": ApproachingAugustan Satire and Common Sense -- 3.2 "Good Sense Defaced": Enthusiasm and False Learning -A Tale of a Tub and Peri Bathous -- 3.3 Human Nature, Reason, and Madness - A Satyr againstReason and Mankind, Gulliver's Travels, and An Essay onMan -- 4 The Politics of Common Sense -- 4.1 The Birth of Common Sense Discourse from the Spiritof Patriotism -- 4.2 English Common Sense Personified - Pasquin and theMany Lives of Common Sense -- 4.3 Nationalist Common Sense: Liberty and Revolution -- 5 The Other of Common Sense -- 5.1 The Foreign Other - Robinson Crusoe and The Citizenof the World -- 5.2 The Female Other - The Rape of the Lock -- 6 The Afterlife of Common Sense -- Bibliography -- 1 Abbreviated Source References -- 2 Historical Sources -- 3 Critical Sources -- Author and Title Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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