How Long to Read Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson

How Long Does it Take to Read Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson by Leopold Damrosch

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Description

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the most powerful literary work in Britain was nonfictional: philosophy, history, biography, and political controversy. Leo Damrosch argues that this tendency is no accident; at the beginning of the modern age, writers were consciously aware of the role of cultural fictions, and they sought to ground those fictions in a real world beyond the text. Their political conservatism (often neglected by modern scholars) was an extensively thought out response to a world in which meaning was inseparable from consensus, and in which consensus was increasingly under attack. Damrosch finds strong affinities between writers who are usually described as antagonists. The first chapter places Hume and Johnson in dialogue, showing that their responses to the challenge of their age have deep similarities, and that their thinking points forward in significant ways to twentieth-century pragmatism. Subsequent chapters explore the interrelationship of the fictive and the "real" in a wide range of works by Boswell, Gibbon, White, Burke, and Godwin. In its combination of literary, philosophical, and cultural criticism, this book will appeal to scholars in many fields as well as to nonacademic readers interested in intellectual history.

How long is Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson?

Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson by Leopold Damrosch is 276 pages long, and a total of 70,656 words.

This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 26 minutes to read Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson aloud.

What Reading Level is Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson?

Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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