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Probability and Literary Form : Philosophic Theory and Literary Practice in the Augustan Age

ISBN: 9780521128728 | 0521128722

Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 2/4/2010

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Summary Table of Contents

This highly original and penetrating study explores fundamental intellectual predispositions and concepts which underpin the literature and thought of the Augustan period in England. 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.

Preface
Stages in the History of the Idea of Probability
From rhetoric to science
Probability and signs: reasoning from effect to cause
Probability in Augustan Literary Criticism
Vraisemblance, probability and opinion
The literary work as a hierarchy of probable signs
The role of probability in Augustan theories of imitation
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Probability and literary form
The conditions of knowing in Augustan fiction
Sentimental communion and probable inference: Mackenzie and Sterne
Association, reverie and the decline of hierarchy
Concluding theoretical postscript
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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