[PDF] Common Sense A Common Delusion Or The Generally Received Notions Of Natural Causes Deity Religion Virtue C As Exhibited In Mr Popes Essay On Man Proved Ridiculous Impious By Almonides A Believing Heathen eBook

Author : Christoph Henke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110394979

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While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.

Author : Leopold Damrosch
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520335902

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Author : Harry M. Solomon
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817306960

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Solomon (English, Auburn U.) deconstructs the two centuries of criticism of Pope's long philosophical poem, which was loved by his contemporaries, and has been denigrated and trivialized by recent critics. He concludes that literary critics should not try to interpret philosophy. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR