Abstract

Introduction: dialogue and Enlightenment Part I. Strains of Enlightenment: 1. Shaftesbury's characteristic genres: concepts of criticism in the early eighteenth century 2. Shaftesbury's The Moralists: a dialogue upon dialogue 3. Berkeley and the paradoxes of empiricism: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous 4. Berkeley's Alciphron, or the Christian Cicero 5. Hume and the end of religious dialogue: Dialogues concerning Natural Religion Part II. Dialogue, Aesthetics and the Novel: 6. The Platonic revival: 1740-70 7. Anti-Platonism and the novelistic character 8. Dead conversations: Richard Hurd's late poetics of dialogue 9. Utopia or conversation: transforming dialogue in Johnson and Austen Epilogue: some dialectics of Enlightenment.

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