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Adam Smith influence
Author_Wendy Motooka
British Enlightenment thought
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Cream Cheese
David Simple
don
Don Quixote
eighteenth-century literature
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Est Disputandum
female
Female Quixote
Fielding's Fiction
impartial
Impartial Spectator
Mans Breast
moral
Moral Empiricism
moral philosophy
Moral Sentiments
Mrs Western
Natural Standard
Outward Ornaments
Pin Factory
quixote
Quixotic Figure
rationality and emotion in culture
Royal Literary Fund
Sancho's Kinsmen
sentimental fiction analysis
sermon
shandy
Shandy Hall
Smith's Theory
social sciences history
spectator
Sprat's History
Tom Jones
tristram
True Standard
Wind Mills
yorick's
Yorick's Sermon
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415179416
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jul 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Wendy Motooka contends that 'the Age of Reason' was actually an Age of Reasons. Joining imaginative literature, moral philosophy, and the emerging discourse of the new science, she seeks to historicise the meaning of eighteenth-century 'reason' and its supposed opposites, quixotism and sentimentalism. Reading novels by the Fieldings, Lennox and Sterne alongside the works of Adam Smith, Motooka argues that the legacy of sentimentalism is the social sciences. This book raises our understanding of eighteenth-century British culture and its relation to the 'rational' culture of economics that is growing ever more prevasive today.
Wendy Motooka is Assistant Professor of English at Oberlin College, USA.
