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Author Patey, Douglas Lane.

Title Probability and literary form : philosophic theory and literary practice in the Augustan age / Douglas Lane Patey.

Publication Info. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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 Moore Stacks  PR73 .P38 1984    Available  ---
Description xiii, 380 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-363) and index.
Contents Part I Stages in the History of the Idea of Probability -- 1 From rhetoric to science -- 2 Probability and signs: reasoning from effect to cause -- Part II Probability in Augustan Literary Criticism -- 3 Vraisemblance, probability and opinion -- 4 Literary work as a hierarchy of probable signs -- 5 Role of probability in Augustan theories of imitation -- Part III Probability and the Meaning of Augustan Narrative -- 6 Probability and literary form -- 7 Conditions of knowing in Augustan fiction -- 8 Sentimental communion and probable inference: Mackenzie and Sterne -- 9 Association, reverie and the decline of hierarchy -- Concluding theoretical postscript.
Subject Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
English fiction.
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Influence.
Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Literary form -- History -- 18th century.
Literary form.
English literature -- Roman influences.
English literature -- Roman influences.
Classicism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Classicism.
Literature -- Philosophy.
Literature -- Philosophy.
Probability in literature.
Probability in literature.
Critique -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature -- Philosophie.
Probabilités.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Waarschijnlijkheid (statistiek)
Littérature anglaise -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Begriff.
Literatur.
Literaturtheorie.
Philosophie.
Wahrscheinlichkeit.
Englisch.
Begriff.
Englisch.
Literatur.
Literaturtheorie.
Philosophie.
Wahrscheinlichkeit.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1660-1800.
Geschichte 1700-1800.
Indexed Term English literature, 1745-1837 - Critical studies
Subject Critique - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 18e siècle.
Littérature - Philosophie.
Probabilités.
Roman anglais - 18e siècle - Histoire et critique.
Added Title Philosophic theory and literary practice in the Augustan age.
ISBN 0521254566
9780521254564
0521128722
9780521128728

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