Locke Minding Women
Literary History, Gender, and the Essay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16003144 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Willard Walker (0000-0002-3356-8036, corresponding author), William Walker |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 245-245 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2586 • E-ISSN: 1086-315X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2738795 |
| OpenAlex | W2333854723 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
IT HAS BEEN A STANDARD PROCEDURE of contemporary critics concerned with questions of eighteenth-century literary history to appeal to Locke as a foundational figure. Whether one goes to Watt or McKeon for an explanation of the rise of the novel, for instance, one finds that an account of the new philosophy in general and Locke in particular prominently figures in the explanation of the new form. Be it as analogue, paradigm, cause, or code, Lockean epistemology is cited by several other critics who have attempted to specify the enabling conditions and defining features of this principal eighteenthcentury genre.' Broader questions of post-Renaissance literary periodization have also been addressed by critics who sense literature to be tied in a fundamental way to the empiricist statement. Not just older critics such as Willey, Bate, Tuveson, Wasserman, and Abrams, but more recent ones such as Weiskel, Rousseau, and Knapp make Locke a touchstone for discriminations between the sublime, the sentimental, Romanticism, and the eighteenth-century3 The specific aspect of the Lockean statement to which several of these critics resort in order to ground their postulation of literary
Aesthetics · Art · History of literature · Literature · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · Psychology · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2005 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |