Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture —— Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics, 1680–1750

----- 18世纪初期英国文学和文化常识：伦理，美学和政治，1680-1750年

ISBN: 9783110343359 出版年：2014 页码：326 Henke, Christoph De Gruyter

In a time of political, epistemic and aesthetic revolutions, early 18th-century Britain saw the emergence of a public discourse of 'common sense' which had a lasting influence on cliched concepts of cultural identity. By retracing the compensatory impulses of common sense discourse and highlighting the role of literary texts in its formation and dissemination, this study challenges the received view of Augustan England as a mere Age of Reason.