Print version: Wood, James Robert Anecdotes of Enlightenment Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,c2019 ISBN 9780813942209
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- ONE. Anecdotal Experiments -- TWO. Hume and the Laws of Anecdote -- THREE. Anecdotes in the Wake of the Endeavour -- FOUR. Anecdotal Poetics in Lyrical Ballads -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Written in an engaging style and spotlighting the eccentric aspects of Enlightenment thought, this fascinating book will appeal to historians, philosophers, and literary critics interested in the intellectual culture of the long eighteenth century..