Anecdotes of Enlightenment: Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth

Provides a literary history of the anecdote in English. Drawing on extensive archival research and emphasizing the anecdote as a way of thinking, James Robert Wood shows that an intimate relationship developed between the anecdote and the Enlightenment concept of human nature.

• | Author: James Robert Wood
• | Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 22, 2019
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780813942209
• | ISBN-10: 0813942209