1st Edition
The Age of Reasons Quixotism, Sentimentalism, and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century Britain
By Wendy Motooka
Copyright 1998
296 Pages
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Routledge
300 Pages
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Routledge
296 Pages
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Routledge
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Wendy Motooka contends that 'the Age of Reason' was actually an Age of Reasons. Joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy, and the emerging discourse of the new science, she seeks to historicise the meaning of eighteenth-century 'reason' and its supposed opposites, quixotism and sentimentalism. Reading novels by the Fieldings, Lennox and Sterne alongside the works of Adam Smith, Motooka... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Turning Authority into Jest; Chapter 2 Common Sense, Moral Sense and Nonsense; Chapter 3 Coming to a Bad End; Chapter 4 Seeing the General View; Chapter 5 De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum; Chapter 6 Laying Down the General Rule; Chapter 7 Epilogue;
Biography
Wendy Motooka is Assistant Professor of English at Oberlin College, USA.
