... a book tentatively titled Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain and has published articles in such journals as Eighteenth-Century Studies , Novel , and Philosophy and Literature . The Theory of Paper: Skepticism, Common Sense, Poststructuralism...

... 2019 Charles Churchill William Cowper conversational form skepticism and common sense literary history The works of Charles Churchill and William Cowper are usually seen as occupying different niches in the history of eighteenth-century English poetry. According to a still-prevalent view...

... are lewd, the boy is mali- cious, the queen’s table manners are disgusting. All these are true, but Swift insists that they are relatively unimportant inasmuch as the state affairs are conducted by the principle of common sense. Swift’s skepticism of reason is reflected in the same context of dis...

... the Critique of Pure Reason appeared in 1781. The Scottish critics of Hume insisted that it was against common sense to doubt the reality of what human beings experienced.33 As Hume and others contended, the Scots did not offer counterargu- ments to his skepticism but said over and over again...

... series and is at work on a book titled Hollowed Voices: Reformulations of the Classical Oracle in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture . Fielding’s Fallen Oracles: Print Culture and the Elusiveness of Common Sense Laura McGrane f all the subjects Henry Fielding considered in his...

... studied philosophy as well as law, occupies a definite if minor place in the development of rationalism in sixteenth- century France. In the preface to his work2 Bru& claims that for the purpose of attacking skeptical ideas heId by some of his contempo- raries (whom he does not mention), he...

... of the Scottish common-sense philosophy, gave way to the Neo-Kantians and the Neo-Hegelians, the skeptics, who did not have the coherence of a “school,” fell into disrepute. Roman- ticism and idealism flourished while the ideas in which Francis Jeffrey believed were condemned as “naturalistic,” “brutish...

...Haldeen Braddy Mary Edith Thomas. New York: William-Frederick Press, 1950. Pp. 184. $3.00. © 1954 University of Washington 1954 REVIEWS Medieval Skepticism and Chaucer. By MARY EDITHTHOMAS. New York: William-Frederick Press, 1950. Pp. 184...

... by Campuzano’s explicit refusal of that possibility. Fiction is the alternative to the dream vision. There is a humorous reflection here on the unreliability of the senses, a central obstacle to human knowledge noted by such key skeptics as Juan Luis Vives, Francisco Sánchez, and Juan Huarte de San Juan (see...

... that the process of reassessment is continuous and inevitable. Both Robert Ryan’s Keats: The Religious Sense and Stuart Ende’s Keats mid the Sublime are modestly revisioriist in intention. At the same time they provide marked contrasts. Ryan’s book, which deliber- ately passes over most of’ the poetry...

... to an anterior temporal space. This essay offers a more differentiated history, examining Scottish and northern song collectors who differed from these formulations and provided distinct understandings of “the people” and of class. David Herd, for instance, used Scottish Enlightenment theories of sense...

... that characterizes post-Cartesian epistemology. A striking example comes in Wittgenstein’s last notebooks, published after his death in book form as On Certainty . 3 Wittgenstein’s notes respond to claims to certain knowledge in a pair of essays by G. E. Moore, “A Defence of Common Sense” and “Proof...

... been, there would have been no possibility of or point to resistance), what sense does it make to think of this demand as resisting American culture? The point is not that resistance or complicity as such are impossible but that what one resists (or is complicitous with) is never one’s...

.... SWINGLE The game looks a bit like musical chairs. It used to be common knowledge that the classical period of the late seventeenth and early to mid-eighteenth century in Britain was full of rationalism, secular- ism, lots of light (ergo Enlightenment), and gardens trimmed...

..., was on the side of common sense. But so were the Humanists, who generally thought that one of the highest aims of philosophy was to develop the sensus cuinmtinis, the summary of all the senses, which made possible the recte jiidicare and recte sentire. Whatever criticism of the abuses of philosophy one...

... literature and Hegelian aesthetics in the nineteenth century. But it is not a book about the “meaning of lit- erature” in any recognizable sense of the term. It is rather an account of the rise of “literature” (or, as we shall see, of “poetry”) as a distinct and identifiable field within modern...

... unsettled by it. American literature’s pragmatist project thus entails “re-grafting” the revolutionary and skeptical strains of Enlightenment thought to the remains of seventeenth-century religion: the unshakeable “imagination of a kind of otherness” and an attendant sense of moral accountability (150, 144...

... of allegorization represented by Colvin, de SClincourt, Bridges, Fausset, Murry, Thorpe, Crawford, Finney, and Beyer. Next, it must also be understood that Keats uses such words as truth both in their ordinary senses and also in certain private senses peculiar to himself. Thus the clue to Ford‘s...

... these problems of critical assumptions, Sklute’s book is significant and deserves a wide audience. It raises important critical questions about narrative and answers them with perception, learning, a minimum of jar- gon, and much common sense. JAMES...

... and the “standing” of the voice that makes it — engages a dialogue between skepticism and common sense as modes of apprehending evidence. Not all testimony, as Scott points out in his review of the Report, is judicious: it is in the nature of enthusiasts to testify on all possible occasions...