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Samuel Johnson's "general nature" : tradition and transition in eighteenth-century discourse
- Title
- Samuel Johnson's "general nature" : tradition and transition in eighteenth-century discourse / Scott D. Evans.
- Author
- Evans, Scott D., 1953-
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1999.
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Details
- Description
- 168 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "No student of eighteenth-century literature can overlook either the prominence or the ambiguity of the term "nature". This study examines the problematic indispensability of "nature" in the eighteenth century from the perspective of its employment by Samuel Johnson."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 > Philosophy
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
- Johnson, Samuel, (1709-1784) > Philosophie
- Johnson, Samuel
- 1700-1799
- Philosophy of nature > History > 18th century
- Philosophy, English > 18th century
- Philosophy
- Philosophy, English
- Philosophy of nature
- Natuur
- Philosophie > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siècle
- Naturphilosophie
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-162) and index.
- Contents
- Classical "nature" -- Medieval "nature" -- "Nature" in eighteenth-century discourse -- Nature and value in the Rambler, Idler, and Adventurer -- Johnson on the experimental philosophy -- Representation, imagination, and nature in Johnson's literary criticism -- Johnson and eighteenth-century reductionism.
- ISBN
- 0874136962
- 9780874136968
- LCCN
- 99015623
- OCLC
- ocm41315344
- 41315344
- SCSB-14696944
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library