Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson

by G.F. Parker and Fred Parker

Book Overview

In this first study of the role of scepticism in literature, Fred Parker offers a lively and stimulating introduction to key issues in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy. Parker traces the presence of sceptical thinking in works by Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, relates it more broadly to the social self-consciousness of eighteenth-century culture, and discusses its source in Locke and its inspiration in Montaigne.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199253188
• ISBN13: 9780199253180
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.8"