Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth Century

Large 8vo. 196 (4) pp, illus. Bucknell Review, Volume XLI, Number 2: First Edition, 1998. Not Price Clipped. Minor edge wear dj, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 6.5" x 9.5". Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In acetate protector. "Traditional eighteenth-century paradigms of reason, truth, and nature underlie modern concepts of self, gender, sex, etc. that are challenged today in the name of a more liberated and pluralistic problematics. This book is the first of two volumes of essays that identify this postmodern challenge. It examines the historiography of postmodern phenomena in relation to the eighteenth-century texts that they ventriloquize." Size: Slim Octavo.