Empiricism, substance, narrative: an introduction.

Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

Why pose the question of empiricism's relationship to literature? How has empiricism functioned as a structuring principle within narratives of the emergence of eighteenth-century literary modernity? Certainly, eighteenth-century scholars claim the novel as a privileged scene for the enactment of empiricist presumptions. On the one hand, the genre's narrative techniques have been taken to reflect refinements of perception enabled by emergent technologies, such as the microscope, and to accord new textual space to things. More broadly, the novel puts into circulation a figure ...

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