{"product_id":"probability-and-literary-form-philosophic-theory-and-literary-practice-in-the-augustan-age-paperback-9780521128728","title":"Probability and Literary Form; Philosophic Theory and Literary Practice in the Augustan Age (Paperback) 9780521128728","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eProbability and Literary Form\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePhilosophic Theory and Literary Practice in the Augustan Age\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis highly original and penetrating study explores fundamental intellectual predispositions and concepts which underpin the literature and thought of the Augustan period in England.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDouglas Lane Patey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521128728, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 4 February 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e396 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.2 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis highly original and penetrating study explores fundamental intellectual predispositions and concepts which underpin the literature and thought of the Augustan period in England. By examining in particular Augustan notions of probability and the way they provided a framework for thinking about and organising experience, Dr Patey reconstructs a characteristically eighteenth-century theory of literature which offers a much more satisfactory account of the work of Pope, Johnson, Fielding and others than the Romantic literary categories already in existence. The scope of this study is encyclopaedic and it will be an essential reference work for all scholars of eighteenth-century English literature and intellectual history, as well as historians of ideas.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Stages in the History of the Idea of Probability: 1. From rhetoric to science\u003cbr\u003e 2. Probability and signs: reasoning from effect to cause\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Probability in Augustan Literary Criticism: 3. Vraisemblance, probability and opinion\u003cbr\u003e 4. The literary work as a hierarchy of probable signs\u003cbr\u003e 5. The role of probability in Augustan theories of imitation\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Probability and the Meaning of Augustan Narrative: 6. Probability and literary form\u003cbr\u003e 7. The conditions of knowing in Augustan fiction\u003cbr\u003e 8. Sentimental communion and probable inference: Mackenzie and Sterne\u003cbr\u003e 9. Association, reverie and the decline of hierarchy\u003cbr\u003e Concluding theoretical postscript\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005639250200,"sku":"9780521128728","price":40.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521128728i_4297f912-cea6-4903-bbaa-a82963576ac3.jpg?v=1691371916","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/probability-and-literary-form-philosophic-theory-and-literary-practice-in-the-augustan-age-paperback-9780521128728","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}