Dialectic of Whimsy.

Strategically generalizing from a close reading of the character-system and narrative style of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759–1767), this article proposes that whimsicality is an aesthetic category of eighteenth-century culture attuned to the agrarian dynamics of commercial capitalism. Situ...

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Publicado en:Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 98 - 115
Autor principal: Geary, Christopher
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Toronto Press Jan2025
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