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Positivism and Imagination

Positivism and Imagination PDF Author: Catherine LeGouis
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838753231
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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In this book, Catherine LeGouis examines the work of three nineteenth-century positivist critics, each of whom struggled to overcome the contradictions of attempting to separate esthetic, psychological, and sociological concerns from individual subjectivity. These positivists - staunch believers in the authority of scientific reason inspired by Auguste Comte, J.S. Mill, and Hippolyte Taine - attempted to turn literary criticism into an exact science that would observe and explain not only the social context of literature, but also its esthetics, without recourse to subjectivity based on individual reactions.