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Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture : Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics, 1680–1750 / Christoph Henke.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 46Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110343359
  • 9783110394979
  • 9783110343403
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/355 23
LOC classification:
  • PR448.S64 H46 2014
  • PR448.S64 H46 2014
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. The Discourse of Common Sense -- 2. The Ethics of Common Sense -- 3. The Transgressions of Common Sense -- 4. The Politics of Common Sense -- 5. The Other of Common Sense -- 6. The Afterlife of Common Sense -- Bibliography -- Author and Title Index -- Subject Index
Dissertation note: Habil. Universität Augsburg 2012. Summary: While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.

Habil. Universität Augsburg 2012.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. The Discourse of Common Sense -- 2. The Ethics of Common Sense -- 3. The Transgressions of Common Sense -- 4. The Politics of Common Sense -- 5. The Other of Common Sense -- 6. The Afterlife of Common Sense -- Bibliography -- Author and Title Index -- Subject Index

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While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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