Beschreibung:
Providing a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world at a time when the boundaries of knowledge were growing rapidly in response to their evolving surroundings, this volume is essential reading for scholars and students of eighteenth-century British literature, culture and thought.
Introduction Frans De Bruyn; 1. Philosophical Thought: Theories of Knowledge and Moral Thought Frans De Bruyn; 2. Science in the Long Eighteenth Century Sara Landreth; 3. Political and Legal Thought Nancy E. Johnson; 4. Religious Thought: The Defence of Religious Establishment Roger D. Lund; 5. Historical Thought Ruth Mack; 6. Wealth and Corruption: Eighteenth-Century Social and Economic; 7. Thought in Four Scandals Robert Sparling; 8. Literary and Aesthetic Theory Philip Smallwood; 9. Sensibility: Passion, Emotion, Affect Julie Murray.