Title Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture : Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics, 1680-1750 / Christoph Henke

Published Berlin ; München ; Boston : DE GRUYTER, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; v. 46 Buchreihe der Anglia ; 46. Bd. Contents List of Illustrations; 1 The Discourse of Common Sense; 1.1 The Argument: Common Sense as Compensation; 1.2 A Short History of Common Sense in Philosophy and Criticism; 1.3 The Discursive Formation of Early Eighteenth-Century Common Sense; 2 The Ethics of Common Sense; 2.1 Good Sense and Good Taste: The Common-Sense Union of Ethics and Aesthetics -- Shaftesbury and Pope; 2.2 Perversions of Moral Sense -- The Fable of the Bees; 2.3 Life Ethic and Happiness -- Samuel Johnson and Rasselas; 3 The Transgressions of Common Sense 3.1 "These Arrows that fly in the Dark": Approaching Augustan Satire and Common Sense3.2 "Good Sense Defaced": Enthusiasm and False Learning -- A Tale of a Tub and Peri Bathous; 3.3 Human Nature, Reason, and Madness -- A Satyr against Reason and Mankind, Gulliver's Travels, and An Essay on Man; 4 The Politics of Common Sense; 4.1 The Birth of Common Sense Discourse from the Spirit of Patriotism; 4.2 English Common Sense Personified -- Pasquin and the Many Lives of Common Sense; 4.3 Nationalist Common Sense: Liberty and Revolution; 5 The Other of Common Sense 5.1 The Foreign Other -- Robinson Crusoe and The Citizen of the World5.2 The Female Other -- The Rape of the Lock; 6 The Afterlife of Common Sense; Bibliography; 1 Abbreviated Source References; 2 Historical Sources; 3 Critical Sources; Author and Title Index; Subject Index Summary In a time of political, epistemic and aesthetic revolutions, early 18th-century Britain saw the emergence of a public discourse of 'common sense' which had a lasting influence on clichéd concepts of cultural identity. By retracing the compensatory impulses of common sense discourse and highlighting the role of literary texts in its formation and dissemination, this study challenges the received view of Augustan England as a mere Age of Reason Analysis Common sense English literature eighteenth-century culture eighteenth-century literature Subject Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Common sense in literature. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Common sense -- Social aspects -- Great Britain Common sense in literature English literature Intellectual life Literature and society SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056855 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783110343403 3110343401

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