Studies in Eighteenth-century Culture: Volume 26Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 - 344 pagina's This collection of 16 essays offers an insight into the texts and contexts of 18th-century culture in America, Britain and Europe. Topics covered include: pastoralism; Augustanism; the aesthetic; hysteria; female alienation; German Enlightenment; knowledge; charity; and Gothicism. |
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Pagina 92
... observations . They may be carefully plotted , empirical narratives informed by an episte- mological tension between two kinds of truth : observation of symptoms and hypotheses about causes . Writers like Sydenham generally express the ...
... observations . They may be carefully plotted , empirical narratives informed by an episte- mological tension between two kinds of truth : observation of symptoms and hypotheses about causes . Writers like Sydenham generally express the ...
Pagina 100
... observation of " ordinary phenomena " for outdated theories about " fortune " in order to explain the causes of suffering , Mandeville pro- poses to substitue " the solid Observation of never - erring Nature ” for “ the witty ...
... observation of " ordinary phenomena " for outdated theories about " fortune " in order to explain the causes of suffering , Mandeville pro- poses to substitue " the solid Observation of never - erring Nature ” for “ the witty ...
Pagina 108
... observation to give his hypothesis an empirical foundation . As proof that the portrait of Miss Mathews is realistic , the narrator re- counts having seen a woman lie " in Bed with a Rake at a Bagnio , smoaking Tobacco , drinking Punch ...
... observation to give his hypothesis an empirical foundation . As proof that the portrait of Miss Mathews is realistic , the narrator re- counts having seen a woman lie " in Bed with a Rake at a Bagnio , smoaking Tobacco , drinking Punch ...
Inhoudsopgave
Pastoralism | 7 |
PaintedPennedPurloined | 29 |
Opposition Augustanism and Popes Epistle to Augustus | 57 |
Copyright | |
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