Empiricism And The Early Theory Of The Novel
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Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel
Author | : Roger Maioli |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3319398601 |
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This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction. British empiricism from Bacon to Hume challenged the notion that imaginative literature can be a reliable source of knowledge. This book argues that theorists of the novel, from Henry Fielding to Jane Austen, recognized the force of the empiricist challenge but refused to capitulate. It traces how, in their reflections on the novel, these writers attempted to formulate a theoretical link between the world of experience and the products of the imagination, and thus update the old defenses of poetry for empirical times. Taken together, the empiricist challenge and the responses it elicited signaled a transition in the longstanding debate about literature and knowledge, as an inaugural round in the persisting conflict between the empirical sciences and the literary humanities.
Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel
Author | : Roger Maioli |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2017-03-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319398594 |
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This book is about the empiricist challenge to literature, and its influence on eighteenth-century theories of fiction. British empiricism from Bacon to Hume challenged the notion that imaginative literature can be a reliable source of knowledge. This book argues that theorists of the novel, from Henry Fielding to Jane Austen, recognized the force of the empiricist challenge but refused to capitulate. It traces how, in their reflections on the novel, these writers attempted to formulate a theoretical link between the world of experience and the products of the imagination, and thus update the old defenses of poetry for empirical times. Taken together, the empiricist challenge and the responses it elicited signaled a transition in the longstanding debate about literature and knowledge, as an inaugural round in the persisting conflict between the empirical sciences and the literary humanities.
Born Yesterday
Author | : Stephanie Insley Hershinow |
Publsiher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781421438832 |
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Drawing on bold close readings, Born Yesterday alters the landscape of literary historical eighteenth-century studies and challenges some of novel theory's most well-worn assumptions.
Fictional Matter
Author | : Helen Thompson |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812248722 |
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Fictional Matter argues that chemical definitions of particulate matter shaped eighteenth-century British science and literature. In this lucid, revisionary analysis of corpuscular science, Helen Thompson advances a new account of how the experimental production of empirical knowledge defined the emergent realist novel.
Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice
Author | : Stephen Ahern |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2018-12-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319972688 |
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Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice develops new approaches to reading literature that are informed by the insights of scholars working in affect studies across many disciplines, with essays that consider works of fiction, drama, poetry and memoir ranging from the medieval to the postmodern. While building readings of representative texts, contributors reflect on the value of affect theory to literary critical practice, asking: what explanatory power is affect theory affording me here as a critic? what can the insights of the theory help me do with a text? Contributors work to incorporate lines of theory not always read together, accounting for the affective intensities that circulate through texts and readers and tracing the operations of affectively charged social scripts. Drawing variously on queer, feminist and critical race theory and informed by ecocritical and new materialist sensibilities, essays in the volume share a critical practice founded in an ethics of relation and contribute to an emerging postcritical moment.
Empirical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century Novel
Author | : Aaron R. Hanlon |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2022-11-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108853903 |
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This Element examines the eighteenth-century novel's contributions to empirical knowledge. Realism has been the conventional framework for treating this subject within literary studies. This Element identifies the limitations of the realism framework for addressing the question of knowledge in the eighteenth-century novel. Moving beyond the familiar focus in the study of novelistic realism on problems of perception and representation, this Element focuses instead on how the eighteenth-century novel staged problems of inductive reasoning. It argues that we should understand the novel's contributions to empirical knowledge primarily in terms of what the novel offered as training ground for methods of reasoning, rather than what it offered in terms of formal innovations for representing knowledge. We learn from such a shift that the eighteenth-century novel was not a failed experiment in realism, or in representing things as they are, but a valuable system for reasoning and thought experiment.
The Letters in the Story
Author | : Eve Tavor Bannet |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781316518854 |
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First study of a long tradition of mixed-mode writing, largely favored by British women novelists, that combined fully-transcribed letters with third-person narrative.
Painting the Novel
Author | : Jakub Lipski |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2017-12-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351137799 |
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Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting – a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study. This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts, recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of their fictions. In this, the novelists took part in the discussion of the sister arts, not only by pointing to the affinities between them but also, more importantly, by recognising their potential to inform one another; in other words, they expressed a conviction that the theory of a new genre can be successfully rendered through meta-pictorial analogies. By tracing the uses of painting in eighteenth-century novelistic discourse, this book sheds new light on the history of the so-called "rise of the novel".