Hume, romance, and the unruly imagination.(David Hume)(Critical essay)

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Tierney-Hynes, Rebecca | Copyright information

Jerome Christensen has observed that "[f]or Hume and his fellow men of letters the general term that subsumed 'discourse' and 'conversation' was 'correspondence,'" and that "correspondence" was so multivalent in the eighteenth century that it could signify the "empiricist ethic of sympathy" at the same time that it "was deftly employed to perform the chiasmic balance of keeping the sexual social and giving the social the edge of the sexual." (1) Christensen's analysis of the place...

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