Fictions of reality in the age of Hume and Johnson
Aims to show that the responses of Hume and Johnson to the challenge of their age have deep similarities. The book also explores the relationship of the fictional and the ""real"" in a wide range of works by Boswell, Gibbon, White, Burke and Godwin.
Print Book, English, ©1989
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©1989
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780299123802, 9780299123840, 0299123804, 0299123847
20056755
Introduction: Texts and Their Realities
1. Johnson and Hume: Fictions of Self and World
2. Boswell: Life as Art
3. Gibbon: Commanding the Past
4. Hume, Gibbon, Johnson: The Fictions of Belief
5. Gilbert White: Enlightenment Science, Conservative Myth
6. Burke: The Breakdown of Consensus
7. Godwin: Resymbolizing the World