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100			_aPrince, Michael
245			_aPhilosophical dialogue in the British Enlightenment : theology, aesthetics, and the novel
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c1996 _aNew York :
300			_axiv, 282 p. ; _bill., _c23 cm.
365			_b2582.00 _c₹ _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-276) and index.
520			_aPublisher description: This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue during the eighteenth century; and why, after Hume, philosophical dialogue either falls out of use or undergoes radical transformation. Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment describes the extended, heavily coded, and often belligerent debate about the nature and proper management of dialogue; and it shows how the writing of philosophical fictions relates to the rise of the novel and the emergence of philosophical aesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history.
650			_aAesthetics
650			_aBritish 18th century
650			_aCriticism
650			_ainterpretation
650			_aEnglish fiction
650			_aEnlightenment
650			_aGreat Britain
650			_aIntellectual life
650			_aPhilosophy in literature
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