Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has light shelf wear, foxing, edge rubbing. ; Literary analysis of the work of Swift, Mandeville, Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Johnson, and Godwin. ; 8.5" tall; 176 pages.

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Title

The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in Eighteenth-Century Prose

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Publication Date

1979

Language

English

ISBN 10

081311389X

ISBN 13

9780813113890

Binding

Hardcover

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Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

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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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Robert W. Uphaus is associate professor of English at Michigan State University.

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