Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Empiricism through the prism of aesthetics
  • The silence of Ajax: Hume's moral sublime
  • Adam Smith's judgment of judgment
  • Richardson's Clarissa and eyes of the world
  • The orchestration of spectacle in Sense and Sensibility
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds and the discourses of art
  • Pemberley's hall of mirrors: Austen and Reynolds
  • The impartial spectator of Mansfield Park.