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The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's Lives of the Poets
Martin Maner
The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's Lives of the Poets
Martin Maner
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.
200 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780820333748 |
Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 200 |
Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 12 mm · 258 g |
Language | English |
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