1st Edition
Enlightenment and Political Fiction The Everyday Intellectual
By Cecilia Miller
Copyright 2016
280 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
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Routledge
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The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into the intellectual debates of the time, as much of the core of modern political and economic theory was to be found first in the fiction, not the theory, of this age. Amusingly, many of these abstract ideas were presented for the first time in stories featuring... Read more
Introduction 1. Don Quixote (1605, 1615), Rationality, and Forms of Government 2. Simplicissimus (1668, 1669), Religious Toleration, and Friendship 3. Gulliver’s Travels (1726, amended 1735), Science, and Social Class 4. Candide (1759), Sexuality, and the Modern Individual 5. The Betrothed (1825-1827, 1840-1842), Revolution, and the Perfectibility of the Human Mind. Conclusion.
Biography
Cecilia Miller is Associate Professor of History and Tutor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University.
