Fictions of Reality

by Leo Damrosch

During the second half of the 18th century the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional - philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy, Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text. Their political conservatism was a considered response to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299123847
• ISBN13: 9780299123840
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"