The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's Lives of the Poets
Maner, Martin
ISBN 10: 0820310387 ISBN 13: 9780820310381
Published by University of Georgia Press, 1989
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This work shows shows how a shift in philosophical outlook in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from an understanding of human knowledge rooted in deductive certainties to one resting on inductive probability influenced the development of biographical narrative and Johnson's biographical evidence in his "Lives of the Poets.""
About the Author: MARTIN MANER is a professor of English at Wright State University.
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Title: The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and ...
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included