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Empiricism, Substance, Narrative: An Introduction
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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, eighteenthcentury 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 ...
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; ... functioned as a structuring principle within narratives of the emergence of eighteenth-century ... presumptions. On the one hand, the genre's narrative techniques have been taken to reflect ... thought to compose the modern subject; or, empiricism seems to posit sensation as the origin ... whose automaticity ...
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