This book examines the cult of the deathbed scene in eighteenth-century Britain and France, exploring the three currents of Enlightenment thought implict in the deathbed ""projects"" of Hume, Johnson, and Marat. The book describes the response of Boswell, Burke, Smith and Gibbon to Johnson's and Hume's projects: it also considers the complex relations between reformist and transformist thought in Britan during the last three decades of the century.
- ISBN13 9780838754818
- Publish Date 31 July 2001
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 219
- Language English