The Philosophical Biographer: Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's Lives of the Poets

Author/Contributor(s):	Maner, Martin
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	01/01/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This work shows shows how a shift in philosophical outlook in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--from an understanding of human knowledge rooted in deductive certainties to one resting on inductive probability--influenced the development of biographical narrative and Johnson's biographical evidence in his Lives of the Poets.