15720 Literary Criticism and Literary History Interesting to non-Austen fans as

Interesting to non-Austen fans as well as those of us who indulge constantly

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15720 Literary Criticism and Literary History Interesting to non-Austen fans asWe love crossing disciplines and here is a masterpiece. Kareem skillfully convinces us that the Age of Reason and the Gothic novel were part of the same transition in thought that worked its way through the 18th century. From Robinson Crusoe to Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, from David Hume to Michael Faraday, the new sense of wonder involved both skepticism and imagined possibility. This is a fresh reading of works like Gulliver's Travels, Tom Jones,