...Sarah Tindal Kareem This essay reimagines the relationship between Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and David Hume's skeptical philosophy, a relationship previously defined by Ian Watt's suggestion in The Rise of the Novel (1957) that Hume's emphasis upon man's essentially social nature...

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... of constructing illusions of the kinds of private worlds that René Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, or David Hume had theorized. But it has become increasingly clear that the story of inner life is one of the external, too, with a younger generation of scholars showing us how literary conventions...

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..., philosophers such as the Earl of Shaftesbury, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith typically suspend the epistemic grounding for moral relations but thereby produce a sharp disjunction between their theories of perception and of relation, creating a productive difficulty. Furthermore, Yousef argues...

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..., and indeed Tindal Kareem draws heavily on contemporary and eighteenth-century cognitive theory, particularly David Hume's devastating attack on the fallacy of causation, A Treatise of Human Nature . Tindal Kareem takes on the crisis of belief that she sees as marking the transition to modernity...

..., Lee writes of Hume: “[L]ike the vacant center of a tidal wave, the insensible initiates the turbulence that surges through a population” (105). The next sentence shifts from effect to cause as it compares the insensible to “a CPR mannequin: open-mouthed, wall-eyed, its hollow torso primed...

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... as novels—and also how they participate in broader cultural debates about ethics, beauty, subjectivity, and sociability. Yahav shows that John Locke and David Hume, as well as the novels she considers, draw attention to duration as the experience of a certain qualitative intensity that cannot...

... these words functioned in the nineteenth century as a means of navigating the problems of induction. Induction, in Farina's reading, is not just a scientific process. It is also a social logic. Reading William Hazlitt, David Hume, Whewell, and Smith, Farina argues that as induction takes particular...

... .” Studies in Romanticism 49 . 4 ( 2010 ): 553 – 75 . Cheyne George . The English Malady; or, A Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, as Spleen, Vapours, Lowness of Spirits, Hypochondriacal, and Hysterical . London , 1773 . Christensen Jerome . Practicing Enlightenment: Hume...

.... That’s the peculiarity of the facts they deliver. 188 novel | spring 2010 Works Cited Braudy, Leo. Narrative Form in History and Fiction: Hume, Fielding, and Gibbon. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1970. Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de. Don...

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... to Audrey Jaffe to Fred Kaplan ground their inquiry in David Hume and Adam Smith to theorize how scenes of suffering are communicated to an audience so as to rouse the reader’s (or viewer’s) sympathy. Contemporary critics’ focus on the effects of reading also reflects the continuing influence...

... of their own” (18). As a result, sympathy is about social knowledge rather than the emotional contagiousness that she identifies with Hume, and realism is less about verisimilitude than the experience of others' mental states: “Dorothea feels real to us, even now, not because we feel what she does or know what...

... by Hume) in the history of epistemology.) Chapter 3 takes up what critics such as Richard Brodhead have identified as the "humanization" of the object world in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country ojthe Pointed Firs, situating her "materialist epistemology" in the anthropological and "museal matrix...