Ends of Enlightenment

(Stanford University Press) This collection of essays explores three realms of 18th-century European innovation: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences. Bender considers the novel not only as art, but also as a force in thinking, and probes the kinship among realism, hypothesis, and scientific fact. Bender is Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford University.