What Made the Eighteenth Century Writers and Their Novels

What Made the Eighteenth Century Writers and Their Novels
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 163
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ISBN-10 : 9781527501812
ISBN-13 : 1527501817
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Book Synopsis What Made the Eighteenth Century Writers and Their Novels by : Stefano Mochi

Download or read book What Made the Eighteenth Century Writers and Their Novels written by Stefano Mochi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines eighteenth-century novels, with a focus on the skills that readers were expected to master in order to read these works. It analyses how such skills were shaped by the cultural and political climate of the time. Starting with a review of the debate on education that began in England in the eighteenth-century and the way it was influenced by philosophers such as John Locke, it then discusses the demands that novelists like Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Godwin, Smollett and Richardson made concerning this subject. Various scientific, philosophical, religious and linguistic theories are used to examine the issues above: Chaos Theory, Wittgenstein’s idea of “logical space”, Grice’s cooperative principle, Aristotle’s poetics and de Molinos’ Quietism.


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