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Overview
The first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence, challenging current ideas of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in early eighteenth-century Britain. It shows how Berkeley's idea that the phenomenal world is the language of God, learnt through custom and experience, can help to explain some of Pope's conservative sceptical arguments, and also his virtuoso poetic techniques.
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- ISBN-13: 9781403941725
- ISBN-10: 1403941726
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: September 2005
- Dimensions: 8.88 x 6.22 x 0.68 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.87 pounds
- Page Count: 203
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