Description
Anecdotes of Enlightenment features careful readings of the philosophy of John Locke and David Hume; the periodical essays of Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Eliza Haywood; the travel narratives of Joseph Banks, James Cook, and James Boswell; the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth; and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Written in an engaging style and spotlighting the eccentric aspects of Enlightenment thought, this fascinating book will appeal to historians, philosophers, and literary critics interested in the intellectual culture of the long eighteenth century.
About the Author
James Robert Wood is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Book Information
ISBN 9780813942209
Author James Robert Wood
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint University of Virginia Press
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Weight(grams) 530g