The Counterfeiters (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Hugh Kenner
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Literary and cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Literature, Art or artists, Manners or customs, Poetry or poets, Social life, Writing, Empiricism
Form and Content
Hugh Kenner’s The Counterfeiters: An Historical Comedy is a collection of five interrelated essays which address a profound change which began in English literature and culture shortly before 1700 and whose effects continue well into the twentieth century. This shift in outlook has been known by several terms, the most famous of which is T. S. Eliot’s “disassociation of sensibility,” but it may also be identified with the rise of the philosophical school known as empiricism.
Generally speaking, empiricism is a philosophy which relies...
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