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Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel - Fielding to Austen (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Empiricism and the Early Theory of the Novel - Fielding to Austen (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
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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.
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