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

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

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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.