Impossible Observer Reason and the Reader in 18th-Century Prose
Language: English
Published by University Press of Kentucky, 1979
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Uphaus believes that the presence of indeterminacy in 18th century prose draws a supposedly objective spectator into the text and makes him, willing or not, a participant rather than only an observer. Ex library with the usual markings: pocket at rear, stomp on top edge, tape marks; DJ sticker marks.; Ex College Library; 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 ".
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- Title
- Impossible Observer Reason and the Reader in 18th-Century Prose
- Author
- Uphaus, Robert W.
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Publication year
- 1979
- Condition
- Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 081311389X
- ISBN 13
- 9780813113890
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- Literary Criticism
Rationality, objectivity, symmetry: were these really principles urged and exemplified by eighteenth-century English prose? In this persuasive study, Robert W. Uphaus argues that, on the contrary, many of the most important works of the period do not actually lead the reader into a new awareness of just how problematical, how unsusceptible to reason, both the world and our easy assumptions about it are.
Uphaus discusses a broad range of writers―Swift, Defoe, Mandeyville, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Johnson, and Godwin―showing that beneath their variety lies a fundamentally similar challenge, addressed to the critical procedure which assumes that the exercise of reason is a sufficient tool for an understanding the appeal of imaginative literature.
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About the Author
Robert W. Uphaus is associate professor of English at Michigan State University.
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