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Overview""This highly recommended study manifests a sure grasp of political and cultural history, familiarity with current critical approaches, and a lucid and often witty style.""-Choice""Potkay sees in Hume and in the period, a deep ambivalence toward eloquence...While Hume is at the center of this book, much of Potkay's analysis concerns other writers, notably Pope, Thomas Gray, Sterne, and Macpherson...[Potkay's] work is ambitious, capacious, and erudite by any standard; as a first book it is astonishingly so.""-Studies in English Literature Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adam PotkayPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780801430145ISBN 10: 0801430143 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 02 December 1994 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsPotkay is thorough, methodical, and very very serious. The Wordsworth Circle Potkay is thorough, methodical, and very very serious. -The Wordsworth Circle Author InformationAdam Potkay is Professor of English at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume, also from Cornell, and coeditor of Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americas. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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